Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes

Senior DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, 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