DevOps & Cloud Specialist

We are growing. And we are looking for talented people. At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent. We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives. As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long-term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams. We are looking for an Devops & Cloud Specialist with expertise in Linux, Kubernetes & Automation! Responsibilities: - Provide Application Production Support (APS) for Wealth Management IT data platform applications and tools. - Handle incidents, service requests and application support activities, ensuring compliance with established Service Level Objectives (SLOs). - Participate in a 24/7 production support environment, including shifts, on-call rotations, weekends and public holidays. - Monitor production systems, analyse system, middleware and application logs, and identify potential issues. - Troubleshoot and resolve incidents involving Linux, cloud infrastructure, middleware and application components. - Escalate risks, critical incidents and management issues to the relevant divisional leads in a timely manner. - Participate in disaster recovery (DR) exercises and live production support activities. - Validate knowledge transfer sessions delivered by application development teams following application changes. - Create, review and maintain application support knowledge articles and technical documentation. - Monitor service performance, prepare reports and contribute to continuous improvements in service quality and availability. - Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and Terraform scripts to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and deployments. - Support infrastructure automation and container orchestration using Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes. - Assist and train other operations team members in Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes. - Apply production-readiness checks, monitoring practices and compliance requirements to mitigate operational and regulatory risks. - Collaborate with application development teams and global APS colleagues to maintain a stable, highly available production environment. - Contribute to automation and service improvement initiatives to reduce incident detection and resolution times. Requirements: - Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field. - At least 5 years of professional experience in IT Operations or Software Engineering. - At least 2 years of hands-on experience with a cloud provider, such as IBM Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. - At least 2 years of practical experience with Ansible and Docker. - Strong knowledge of Linux platforms, command-line interfaces (CLI) and shell scripting. - Proficiency in at least one scripting language, preferably Python and/or Bash. - Strong knowledge of infrastructure automation tools, particularly Ansible and Terraform. - Experience with Kubernetes and containerised environments. - Good understanding of Continuous Integration (CI) tools and practices, such as Jenkins, Travis CI and Concourse. - Experience with production support, incident management and troubleshooting in business-critical environments. - Knowledge of PL/SQL and database-related troubleshooting. - Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace. - Understanding of ITIL practices and IT service management principles. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex technical incidents. - Good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with global technical and business teams. - Proactive approach to operational risk management, service reliability and continuous improvement. - Flexibility to participate in shift rotations, on-call duties, weekends and public holiday support. Certifications: - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible (RH294). - Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD). - Developing Advanced Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (DO374). - HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) is a plus. - HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate (002) is a plus. Are you looking for an environment that values curiosity and commitment? Here, your contribution has real impact and individual growth is taken seriously. Find with us the right opportunity to grow! What you can expect from us: - Long-term projects with national and international context. - Opportunities to grow technically and professionally. - A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust. - Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability. If you’re interested in this job, please send your CV to cesaltina.abreu@decskill.com with the reference “CA/Cloud&DevOps”. Thank you! 😊 Decskill is committed to equality and non-discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being.