DevOps Engineer Backend

About the role

Air Apps, a family-founded company building an AI-powered Personal & Entrepreneurial Resource Planner, is looking for a DevOps Engineer – Backend. You will design, automate and maintain the infrastructure behind the backend systems, working closely with developers to streamline deployments, improve scalability and keep services reliable, secure and cost-effective. This is a fully onsite position in Lisbon, with relocation support offered.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test and deployment.
• Manage and optimise cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, CloudFormation or Pulumi.
• Deploy and manage containerised applications with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks and improve reliability.
• Enforce security best practices, including identity management, logging and vulnerability management.
• Work with development teams to improve deployment efficiency and troubleshoot infrastructure issues.
• Optimise cloud resource usage for cost-effectiveness and scalability, and automate provisioning and configuration.

Required profile

• Around 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering or Cloud Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Linux, networking and security best practices.
• Ability to work in an agile, fast-paced environment.

Required skills

• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, ArgoCD.
• Cloud services (AWS, Azure or GCP) and serverless computing.
• IaC tools: Terraform, CloudFormation or Pulumi.
• Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
• Scripting in Bash, Python or Go.
• Monitoring and logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog.

What we offer

• Apple hardware ecosystem for work.
• Annual bonus.
• Health and life insurance.
• Transportation budget and free meals at the hub.
• Coverflex benefits package, childcare support and pension fund.
• Air Conference and Urban Sports Club membership.