DevOps / Platform Engineer – AWS & Kafka

Decskill, founded in 2014 as an IT Consulting Company, places paramount importance on its greatest asset: its people. Our main mission is to deliver value through knowledge and talent, and we achieve this by fostering a culture of excellence and investing in the development and well-being of our people. With over 600 dedicated professionals and offices in Lisbon, Porto, Madrid, and Luxembourg, Decskill operates across three core areas:

Decskill Talent: We believe that our people are key to our success.

Through Decskill Talent, we empower our team to embrace the digital transformation challenges of our clients. We collaborate with clients to drive innovation, ensuring project success and business growth.

Decskill Boost: Equipping our team with the latest tools and methodologies, we optimize Time-to-Market and deliver innovative solutions exceeding client expectations.

Decskill Connect: Our team collaborates closely with clients to implement and manage IT infrastructures that generate long-term value.

At Decskill, we believe that by nurturing and empowering our people to confront the challenges of digital transformation, we create value not only for our clients but also for our entire ecosystem, fostering a digital community dedicated to growth and progress.

We are looking for a DevOps / Platform Engineer – AWS & Kafka

Responsibilities:

• Operational Tooling & Automation Development (Develop scripts for recurring operational tasks and Concluent CLI operations);
• Connector & Topic Configuration Support (manage kafka topic and sink connector configurations);
• CI/CD & Pipeline Support (Validate, maintain and extend GitLab CI/CD helper jobs and support scripts);
• Operations Team Enablement ( Develop and maintain operational runbooks and diagnostic scripts for incident response);
• Transformation App Configuration Support (Quick Events-APPs - Python / ECS Fargate);
• API Configuration Support (Quick Data-APIs - Lambda / Terraform);
• AWS & Secret Management Support.

Requirements:

Mid-level

• DevOps experience, preferably in platform engineering, data engineering roles;
• AWS Cloud Expertise - EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch (preference to AWS certificates);
• Programming skills, Python or Bash/Zsh for automation scripts and infrastructure tooling (file I/O, REST API calls, CLI tools, data transformation);
• CI/CD Systems - Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms;
• Version Control: Git workflows, pipelines , conventional commits, and merge request;
• Mid-Level - Background in a platform team or operational support role.

Junior-level

• Streaming platforms: Kafka or event streaming concepts (topics, consumers, producers);~
• Experience with Confluent Cloud or the Confluent CLI;
• Experience with data platform infrastructure and database operations: databases (relation and nonrelational), data Structures (Json, xml) and using SQL;
• AWS Lambda configuration and AWS ECS or container orchestration.

If you’re interested in this job please send your CV in English to with reference “SS / DPE)”

Decskill is committed to equality and non-discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being.