Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer

About our client:
Our client is a global LegalTech organization operating modern, cloud-based platforms at scale. They foster a strong DevOps culture, focusing on automation, security, reliability, and continuous improvement across their infrastructure and engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build robust, scalable cloud architectures aligned with business needs, optimizing cost, performance, and security.

• Produce and maintain documentation for infrastructure design, deployments, disaster recovery, and operational procedures.

• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

• Automate deployment, scaling, and maintenance processes to improve operational efficiency.

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.

• Deploy and operate applications in the cloud, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.

• Manage Kubernetes clusters, including deployment, scaling, and monitoring of containerized applications.

• Implement cloud security best practices (IAM, encryption, network security) and proactively mitigate security threats.

• Monitor cloud usage and drive cost optimization, including right-sizing and use of reserved or spot instances.

• Lead optimization efforts for Elasticsearch infrastructure, including index and query performance.

• Stay current with emerging trends in cloud computing, DevOps, and infrastructure automation.

Profile sought:

Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s preferred).

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar Cloud / DevOps role.

Technical skills:

• Proven experience designing and implementing complex cloud infrastructure solutions.

• Strong expertise with cloud platforms, preferably Azure (other providers are a plus).

• Solid experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, etc.).

• Deep knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Splunk).

• Strong troubleshooting skills in complex production environments.

• Experience with networking concepts (VNets, subnets, routing, DNS, peerings) is a plus.

• Experience implementing High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.

• Strong background in performance tuning and infrastructure optimization.

• Security-first mindset across all DevOps and infrastructure practices.

Nice to have:

• Scripting or programming skills (Python, Shell, Java, .NET).

• Experience implementing advanced monitoring and logging solutions.

• Exposure to project management and DevOps strategy implementation.

• Ability to apply business analysis thinking when collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Languages:

• Fluent in English; Portuguese or other languages are a plus.

Soft skills:

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Strong team player, able to resolve conflicts constructively.

• Champion of continuous improvement.

• Proactive, solution-oriented, and highly autonomous.

Benefits & Culture:

• Outsourcing contract with our client

• Login.works is a AI Tech Boutique and Tech Partner

• Modern tech stack and exposure to cutting-edge AI topics.

• Collaborative, international, and knowledge-sharing culture.

• Opportunity to work on impactful, data-driven products.

• Hybrid role > 20% of time at the office in Marques Pombal, Lisbon

Department: Tech

Location: Lisbon > 20% at the office

Start date: ASAP