DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Horizons is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join their growing team and help scale their infrastructure to match the company's rapid growth. The ideal candidate will be passionate about building highly reliable infrastructures and thrive in a fast-paced environment. This role offers the flexibility to be based in Lisbon (office) or remotely within Europe.

As a DevOps Engineer at Horizons, the individual will be responsible for ensuring the availability, reliability, and security of Horizons' SaaS platform. They will define metrics to measure service quality, automate infrastructure deployment and management using Infrastructure as Code, forecast load on production components, and contribute to disaster recovery plans.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure availability, reliability and security of Horizons SaaS platform
• Define metrics to measure the quality of our services and fight to improve them constantly
• Leverage Infrastructure as Code to automate infrastructure deployment and management
• Forecast the load on production components and plan capacity accordingly
• Understand and fix production incidents, take actions to ensure they won’t happen twice
• Contribute to disaster recovery plans and train for operational readiness
• Support Engineering Squads in seamlessly integrating their code within our infrastructure

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years in a Software Development role and at least 3 years as a DevOps or SRE
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and methodologies, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and Configuration Management
• Expertise in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Go
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Cloud Platforms, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitLab CI
• Experience with professional or open-source monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, Data Dog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English

Horizons offers:

• A competitive salary
• An asynchronous working environment
• A "Remote-First" company environment (or Hybrid) - based on the nature of the job
• The ability to work from abroad for a short period of time
• Growth opportunities within the company
• Necessary hardware to succeed from day one