DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer ace in AWS | Kubernetes | SOC 2 – Hybrid Algarve, Portugal

We're excited to help our client Aiera.com, 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 DevOps Engineers in Portugal, you’ll help shape the infrastructure, reliability, and DevSecOps practices for a real-time, AI-powered platform. You will be working directly with the Engineering team in the US.

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 DevOps 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 DevOps / Site Reliability / Platform Engineering roles.
• Deep, hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch).
• 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 (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar).
• 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/OpenSearch, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with stakeholders that are remote and across different timezones.
• Ability and willingness to work 2–3 days/week in the office in the Greater Faro / Loulé area.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with MLOps : ML pipelines, model deployment, inference services, and related tooling.
• Exposure to Python-based systems and microservices.
• Experience in financial technology , market data, or other high-availability data systems.
• Background with compliance automation (policy as code, audit trails, security scanners).
• Experience with international startup teams in a hybrid work setup.

How You Work (About You)

We’re selective in our hiring and look for engineers whose mindset matches Aiera’s culture:

• Driven by curiosity and a desire to create real, lasting value for customers.
• Take pride in building tools and systems where every detail matters .
• Committed to creating clean, maintainable, and well-documented infrastructure and automation.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment with minimal bureaucracy and lots of ownership.
• Comfortable wearing multiple hats and learning new technologies as needed.
• Understand that startups sometimes require flexibility in work hours and responsibilities .
• Value initiative and getting things done over rigid process.
• Communicate clearly, with empathy and a teaching mindset , helping align and mobilize the team.

Location & relocation

We will only consider candidates who are willing to live in the Algarve and be on-site. We will consider and support candidates who are:

• Already based in Portugal and seeking an international engineering environment
• EU / EEA / Swiss / Brazilian citizens (or otherwise with the right to work in Portugal without sponsorship )
• Already in Europe, but need sponsoring to prolong their work permit / visa in Europe.

If you’re energized by joining a mission-driven team , working on transformative AI & data infrastructure , and helping build an industry-leading platform from the Algarve, we’d love to hear from you.