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HireStakes

DevOps Engineer

HireStakes
Portugal · Contract · Mid-Senior

🚀 AWS DevOps Engineer


We’re looking for an AWS DevOps Engineer who is deeply hands-on with Amazon Web Services and passionate about building, scaling, and securing cloud-native systems. This role demands strong ownership of AWS infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and production reliability.


🔧 Key Responsibilities:

  • Own, design, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure across multiple environments (prod, staging, dev)
  • Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for microservices and backend systems
  • Deploy, manage, and scale containerized workloads using Docker & Kubernetes (EKS)
  • Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform / CloudFormation
  • Work extensively with core AWS services: EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling, CloudFront
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
  • Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, backup strategies, and disaster recovery
  • Drive cost optimization and performance tuning across AWS resources
  • Participate in production incidents, on-call rotations, and root cause analysis (RCA)
  • Enforce security best practices including IAM policies, secrets management, and network security


✅ Required Skills & Qualifications:

  • 3–5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps / Cloud / SRE roles
  • Strong, hands-on expertise with AWS (mandatory)
  • Experience managing production workloads on EKS (Kubernetes on AWS)
  • Proficiency with Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation
  • Strong experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
  • Solid understanding of Linux systems & networking (VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers)
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting in cloud-native environments
  • Scripting skills in Bash and/or Python


⭐ Good to Have:

  • Experience in high-traffic consumer or gaming platforms
  • Exposure to DevSecOps practices and security tooling
  • Experience with Redis, MySQL/Postgres, or other data stores
  • Knowledge of autoscaling strategies and performance engineering


If you’re passionate about building resilient, scalable AWS infrastructure and thrive in high-ownership environments, we’d love to hear from you.


📩 Interested? Apply or DM me directly - [email protected]

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Posted
Feb 17, 2026
Type
Contract
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Lisbon
Company
HireStakes

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