Hiire is helping Condukt, a well-funded UK-based startup hire a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for their new office in Porto.

The company

Our customer is a business identity platform that enables the onboarding of businesses of any size easily and instantly. Our products create a trust for financial service providers (our customers) to seamlessly verify, onboard, and monitor businesses (their clients).

Position Overview

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team. You will be a shaper of the design and architecture of the core platform, and work closely with the founding team to deliver value to our clients.
As an early-stage startup, we pride ourselves on our ability to roll up our sleeves and build from scratch. We will be shipping code frequently and learning as we go while satisfying all critical security, performance, and uptime requirements for our clients.
We all love to build, scale, and grow. Our leadership team has experience building products, scaling teams, and optimizing for growth while working with ambitious engineers from tech unicorns.
If you’re passionate about building products that make a complex problem easy, this job is for you. As one of the first engineering hires, you’ll have the opportunity to shape both the product and the engineering culture. You should be ready to move fast, embrace uncertainty, and wear different hats.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and optimize database performance, scalability, and availability
• Manage Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Networking to support high-
  performance workloads
• Implement Incident Response & Reliability Engineering best practices to maintain
  uptime and mitigate risks
• Develop scripts and automation tools to streamline infrastructure operations
• Use Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools to manage infrastructure efficiently
• Deploy and manage containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar
  technologies
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for seamless application deployment
• Leverage Cloud Run and other serverless technologies to enhance performance and scalability

Qualifications

• Effective and self-driven builder
• Proven track record (5+ years) building and owning a complete end-to-end
  technology stack (Backend, CI/CD, Logging, Monitoring, Alerting)
• 3+ years of hand-on Python experience in production environments
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with Kubernetes (GKE) and container orchestration, including Helm or
  Kustomize integration for ArgoCD
• Familiarity with Terraform
• Skilled in designing and implementing customer-facing REST APIs and
  asynchronous architectures (e.g. queues, pub/sub, lambdas, webhooks)
• Strong expertise in relational database modeling, using PostgreSQL in production
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Well-versed in DevOps best practices, such as DevOps, and CI/CD
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in an agile
  environment
• Work authorization in Portugal

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary package (including equity)
• Enhanced health benefits
• Flexible working policy (hybrid)
• 22 vacation days
• Standard benefits
• Sick days and compassionate leave as needed