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LivelySr. DevOps Engineer (Remote, Portugal)
Lively, a remote-first organization headquartered in San Francisco with a distributed team, is currently seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to operate out of Portugal. The company…
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Lively, a remote-first organization headquartered in San Francisco with a distributed team, is currently seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to operate out of Portugal. The company provides a top-rated health savings account and an expanding portfolio of financial and benefit products designed to improve user wellness through human-centric design and technology. In this role, the successful candidate will manage AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure end-to-end. This position suits an experienced infrastructure…
Job Description
Lively, a remote-first organization headquartered in San Francisco with a distributed team, is currently seeking a Sr. DevOps Engineer to operate out of Portugal. The company provides a top-rated health savings account and an expanding portfolio of financial and benefit products designed to improve user wellness through human-centric design and technology.
In this role, the successful candidate will manage AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure end-to-end. This position suits an experienced infrastructure professional who can handle tasks ranging from GitOps delivery and Terraform configuration to disaster recovery, observability, and security compliance. The person chosen will collaborate closely with a small, senior engineering group alongside colleagues spread across Europe and the United States.
This is a remote position based in Portugal requiring legal work authorization. Applicants must possess strong communication skills in English and the ability to overlap a few hours daily with US time zones.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate multi-account AWS infrastructure using Terraform across various environments
- Run and upgrade production EKS clusters while handling workloads via Helm and ArgoCD
- Enhance GitHub Actions continuous integration pipelines and the self-hosted runner fleet
- Manage system observability using Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry while participating in the rotation for on-call duties
- Execute security and compliance measures including runtime security, access controls, vulnerability remediation, and gathering PCI and SOC 2 evidence
- Spearhead resilience projects like data replication and multi-region disaster recovery
- Collaborate alongside engineering, security, and data units to facilitate safe and rapid deployments
- Compose documentation and runbooks while mentoring peers on infrastructure standards
Requirements
- Have at least five years of professional background in SRE, platform engineering, or DevOps
- Demonstrate strong operational knowledge of AWS including VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EKS, and RDS
- Possess production experience utilizing Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and GitOps tooling like ArgoCD
- Bring CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions or equivalent systems
- Show solid Linux expertise paired with scripting capabilities in Bash alongside Python, Go, or TypeScript
- Hold legal authorization to work in Portugal
- Demonstrate written and spoken English proficiency with the availability to overlap several hours daily with US time zones
Qualifications
- Prior background working within fintech, healthcare, or PCI environments
Core Skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary ranging between 80,000 and 90,000 EUR depending on location and experience
- Stock options
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance coverage
- Health savings account featuring employer contributions
- Flexible spending account
- Paid parental leave
- Medical travel benefits
- 401k plan
- Flexible vacation policy
- Lifestyle spending accounts
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is this job remote?
Yes, this is a remote position based in Portugal.
What is the salary range for the Sr. DevOps Engineer role?
The base salary range listed is between 80,000 EUR and 90,000 EUR, with actual pay dependent on the candidate's experience and location.
Does Lively provide visa sponsorship for this position?
No, applicants must be legally authorized to work in Portugal because visa sponsorship is unavailable.
What technical experience is required?
Candidates need five or more years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, strong AWS and Linux skills, production experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps, plus CI/CD expertise.
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