Sr. DevOps Engineer (Remote, Portugal) - Lively

About Lively

Lively is a remote-first company dedicated to raising the bar on benefit solutions. We harness user-centric design and innovative technology to deliver an effortless experience for employers and account holders. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our distributed team and help evolve the platform behind our HSA, FSA, and benefits products.

The Role

You will own infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes end-to-end—from Terraform and GitOps delivery to observability, security, and disaster recovery. You will work within a small, senior team alongside engineers across the US and Europe.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure with Terraform across multiple accounts.
• Manage and upgrade production EKS clusters using Helm and ArgoCD (GitOps).
• Enhance GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and self-hosted runner fleet.
• Own observability (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and participate in on-call rotations.
• Drive security and compliance initiatives, including vulnerability remediation, runtime security, and PCI/SOC 2 evidence collection.
• Lead resilience initiatives such as multi-region disaster recovery and data replication.
• Partner with engineering, data, and security teams to ensure safe and fast deployments.
• Write clear documentation and runbooks while mentoring team members on infrastructure best practices.

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Strong AWS experience (VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS, EC2, S3).
• Production experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD.
• CI/CD proficiency with GitHub Actions or equivalent.
• Solid Linux and scripting skills (Bash, plus Python, TypeScript, or Go).
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Security-first mindset; fintech, healthcare, or PCI experience is a strong plus.
• Excellent written and spoken English; ability to overlap a few hours daily with US time zones.

Requirements

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Portugal.
• We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.