Associate Cloud Platform Engineer (AI)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal; hybrid work with partial remote flexibility.

Company

hirify.global is a vertical AI SaaS company serving professional and financial services firms, with development centers including Lisbon.

What you will do

• Operate and maintain a Kubernetes-based platform for AI workloads, including LLM gateways, agent and tool-integration gateways, and agent runtimes.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure as code and GitOps workflows with guidance from senior engineers.
• Onboard and configure access to cloud-hosted foundation models across multiple providers.
• Build and improve dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for AI workloads.
• Handle deployments, upgrades, access requests, troubleshooting, and automation through scripts, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling.
• Support internal product teams with documentation and first-line technical assistance.

Requirements

• 1–2 years of experience in DevOps, platform, SRE, or cloud engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, including deployments, services, configuration, and basic troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code using Terraform and Git-based workflows.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider: Azure or AWS.
• Basic understanding of observability concepts including metrics, logs, and traces, with tools such as Prometheus or Grafana.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go, plus exposure to CI/CD pipelines.
• Willingness to learn and ask questions.

Nice to have

• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD, Flux, or similar.
• Exposure to LLM gateways, LLM observability tools, or managed model services from major cloud providers.
• Familiarity with agent frameworks and tool-integration protocols such as MCP.
• Basic understanding of cloud security practices, including secrets management, RBAC, and network policies.
• Personal or academic projects involving LLM applications or AI tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with agile and flexible hours.
• Collaborative, open, and inclusive environment focused on accountability, responsibility, growth, and work-life balance.
• Competitive base pay with performance-based variable pay and hirify.global equity/stock.
• Paid parental, marriage, bereavement, carer's, and sick leave, plus a meal allowance.
• Home office stipend, training reimbursement, and opportunities to travel to other development centers for training and collaboration.
• Modern facility near Gare do Oriente with a stocked kitchen.

Hiring process

• The interview process generally includes three or more virtual or in-person meetings.