Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes

Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes
Leiria
Leiria, Leiria District, Portugal

Overview

We are seeking a Kubernetes Engineer with experience building resilient, scalable container based platforms in dynamic environments. You’ll play a central role in implementing our container orchestration strategy, optimizing Kubernetes clusters for reliability, performance, and developer velocity. This is a
- on role where architectural insight meets operational excellence - ideal for an engineer who wants to leave their fingerprints on the core of how things run.

Timezone WET Client is Fanduel

Key Responsibilities

Cluster Management: Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes clusters across development, staging, and production environments (EKS a strong plus).

Platform Engineering: Build tooling and abstractions that streamline application deployment and service discovery for developers.

Autoscaling & Performance: Optimize pod scheduling, resource allocation, and horizontal/vertical scaling for
- performance services.

Security & Policy Enforcement: Implement RBAC, network policies, and runtime security tools to enforce safe, compliant workloads.

Deployment Enablement: Enhance Helm charts, Kustomize workflows, and Git
Ops processes to support fast, safe, and reliable deployments.

Observability: Own the integration and tuning of observability stacks (e. g. , Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) for visibility into cluster and application health.

Resilience & Recovery: Support
- tolerant architectures, runbooks for failover, and high availability strategies.

Collaboration: Partner with developers, QA, and platform teams to evolve
-
- code and
- service systems that reduce friction and boost autonomy.

About You

Experience:

• 5+ years in Site Reliability, Infrastructure, or Dev
  Ops roles with a clear Kubernetes focus
• Deep experience running production workloads on Kubernetes (especially on AWS/EKS)
• Solid understanding of container lifecycle, networking, and orchestration internals

Technical Skills:

• Strong with tools like Helm, Kustomize, Argo
  CD, or Flux
• Proficiency with Terraform or Pulumi for provisioning EKS and supporting infrastructure
• Competence in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or Go)
• Familiarity with service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) and Kubernetes-native security tools (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno)

Mindset:

• You are proactive and enjoy taking ownership of infrastructure challenges
• You value automation and reducing manual toil wherever possible
• You are comfortable working in
  - paced, collaborative environments
• You communicate clearly and can explain complex infrastructure topics to different audiences

Nice to Have:

• Experience implementing security controls in regulated or
  - focused environments
• Familiarity with service mesh architectures or advanced Kubernetes networking
• Background supporting
  - region or
  - cloud deployments

Industry

• Software Development

Employment Type

Contract