DevOps Platform Engineer (AWS)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal. Hybrid arrangement with one day per week at the office and three days per semester for workshops or hackathons.

Company

hirify.global provides consulting services, including integration and platform engineering support.

What you will do

• Build operational tooling and automation scripts for recurring tasks and Confluent CLI operations.
• Manage Kafka topic and sink connector configurations for the DART operational data mesh platform.
• Validate, maintain, and extend GitLab CI/CD helper jobs and support scripts.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks and diagnostic scripts for incident response.
• Support QuickEvents applications running on Python and ECS Fargate, and QuickData APIs using Lambda and Terraform.
• Support AWS infrastructure and secret management while translating operational needs into reusable automation.

Requirements

• Mid-level DevOps experience, preferably in platform engineering or data engineering roles.
• Mid-level AWS expertise with EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch; AWS certifications are preferred.
• Mid-level programming skills in Python or Bash/Zsh for automation scripts and infrastructure tooling, including file I/O, REST API calls, CLI tools, and data transformation.
• Mid-level experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
• Mid-level experience with Git workflows, pipelines, conventional commits, and merge requests.
• Mid-level background in a platform team or operational support role.
• Junior-level knowledge of Kafka or event-streaming concepts, including topics, consumers, and producers.
• Junior-level experience with Confluent Cloud or the Confluent CLI.
• Junior-level experience with data-platform infrastructure and database operations, including relational and non-relational databases, JSON, XML, and SQL.
• Junior-level experience configuring AWS Lambda and AWS ECS or other container-orchestration platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with regular office attendance in Lisbon.
• Three workshop or hackathon days per semester.
• Close collaboration between Development and Operations teams.
• Work on a production-ready operational data mesh supporting event streams, APIs, and data stores.