Cloud DevOps Engineer, Lisbon Lisboa

Cloud DevOps Engineer, Lisbon
Lisboa
Lisboa, Portugal

Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic,
-
- end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle's expertise has earned recognition as a "Leader" by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16, 000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

Job Description

We are looking to strengthen our Cloud Solutions team with a versatile Cloud Dev
Ops Engineer. You will report to one of our Cloud Solutions Managers.

Main responsibilities:

• You design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions using leading public cloud providers.
• You develop and implement infrastructure as code (Ia
  C) and configuration management.
• You introduce automation to improve performance, scalability, and security, reducing manual effort.
• You design and develop Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines to accelerate development cycles and ensure reliable releases.
• You design
  - effective solutions and services ensuring that value is measured, tracked, and realized at important delivery points.
• You design and implement logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting solutions for better visibility and faster incident recovery.
• You provide guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• You develop tools and processes to improve teams and customer experience.
• You document products, processes, and tools with a high quality.
• You support software engineers in following the software delivery lifecycle.
• You maintain efficient communication with
  - functional teams, acting as a key stakeholder for project decisions.
• You stay
  -
  - date with industry trends and emerging technologies in cloud computing, providing strategic recommendations.

Qualifications

• 2 - 3 years of
  - on experience designing, deploying, and managing solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for medium to
  - scale applications serving thousands or millions of users.
• 2 - 3 years
  - on experience administering Windows or Linux server environment.
• Proficiency in automation with at least one configuration/deployment management tool such as Ansible, Terraform.
• Proficiency with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with serverless computing and
  - driven architectures.
• Demonstrated experience integrating monitoring and alerting tools, including Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Cloud
  Watch, and ELK.
• Proven track record of building, optimizing, and scaling CI/CD frameworks and tools, seamlessly integrating them into
  -
  - day operations.
• In-depth understanding of security and networking principles within a
  - native environment.
• Experience working in an Agile
  - paced, Dev
  Ops environment.
• Excellent
  - solving skills and adeptness at troubleshooting complex issues.

Main skills: AWS, Linux or Windows Server, Python or Bash, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog or ELK, CI/CD (Git
Hub, Git
Lab, Bit
Bucket).

Additional Information

Benefits and perks in Portugal:

• Software-house environment
• Agile and Flexible working hours
• Digital nomad policy
• Focus on career development
• Health insurance (also included for the household)
• Mental health support
• Volunteer experiences and sustainable mindset
• 25 vacation days + 3 wellness days per year
• Beers (after 6pm), foosball, and
  - pong! #workhardplayhard
• Free breakfast every second Monday of the month
• Team & Company events

Merkle do not discriminate against job applicants on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

We value the strength diversity brings to our business and are working to build a more inclusive workplace. We are happy to discuss all flexible and Agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can't promise we will offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly.

If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with the recruiter who contacts you.