DevOps Engineer

Dev Ops Engineer ace in AWS Kubernetes SOC 2 - Hybrid Algarve, Portugal

We're excited to help our client a fast-growing, well-funded American startup in the financial research technology industry, to build their team in the Algarve.

Overview

Aiera develops a next-generation financial research platform, including its own AI models tailored to financial markets, used by institutional investors and financial professionals globally.

As one of the first Dev Ops Engineers in Portugal, you'll help shape the infrastructure, reliability, and Dev Sec Ops  practices for a real-time, AI-powered platform. You will be working directly with the Engineering team in the US. You bring a Dev Sec Ops  mindset, combining cloud infrastructure expertise with hands-on security, compliance, and operational ownership.

This is a hybrid role based around Loulé / Faro, Algarve (2-3 days per week at the office).

Competitive compensation in the range of €40,000 - €50,000 gross annual, plus relocation support for candidates within Europe to make the move to the Algarve to enjoy a Mediterranean lifestyle along with an innovative career in financial research intelligence.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

• Impactful work: Own critical parts of Aiera's cloud infrastructure, security, and reliability in a highly regulated industry.
• Modern stack: Deep hands-on work with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and ML/AI workloads.
• Strong engineering culture: Collaborate directly with senior engineers and leadership in the US, with low bureaucracy and high autonomy.
• Lifestyle + career: Combine a competitive salary with the chance to live and work in the Algarve, one of Europe's most attractive regions.
• Founding hub team: Be part of building Aiera's first European engineering hub, with influence on process, tooling, and culture.

What You'll Work On

As a Dev Ops Engineer, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS to support real-time data, APIs, and AI workloads.
• Manage Kubernetes-based environments (e.g. EKS), ensuring scalability, resilience, and efficient resource usage.
• Implement and evolve CI/CD pipelines to support frequent, safe deployments across multiple services.
• Design, develop, and maintain MLOps for language models:
• Model training and evaluation pipelines
• Versioning, packaging, and deployment of models
• Monitoring performance and resource usage
• Own security, compliance & reliability aspects of the platform:
• Work within frameworks like SOC 2 and similar standards
• Implement best practices in IAM, secrets management, network security, and logging
• Support audits and continuous compliance automation where possible
• Monitor and optimize system performance, quickly identify bottlenecks, and recommend improvements.
• Collaborate with backend and AI engineers to ensure systems are secure, observable, and scalable from day one.

Who We're Looking For

Must-have qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in Dev Ops / Site Reliability / Platform Engineering roles.
• Deep, hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Cloud Watch).
• Solid experience with Kubernetes in production (cluster operations, deployments, observability, scaling).
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins, or similar).
• Experience administering and operating secure network access solutions, including VPNs, private networking, and access controls for distributed teams.
• Proven experience with security and compliance, preferably in SOC 2 or other regulated environments (finance, healthcare, etc.).
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search, Cloud Watch, etc.).
• Experience with compliance automation platforms such as Vanta (or similar tools like Drata/Secureframe) for control tracking, evidence collection, and continuous compliance monitoring.
• Experience in writing, maintaining, and evolving information security policies, standards, and procedures in collaboration with engineering and leadership.
• Strong involvement in owning and maintaining infrastructure, asset, and device inventories, including…