Sr. DevOps Engineer (Portugal)

About Herculesai

HerculesAI is an AI-powered productivity company transforming how professionals work. We build intelligent tools that automate complex tasks, streamline workflows, and help teams focus on meaningful, high-impact work.

Headquartered in California with global teams across North America and Europe, HerculesAI combines cutting-edge AI with a fast-paced startup environment where innovation, ownership, and collaboration drive everything we do.

About The Role

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and operate infrastructure across both cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) and on-prem environments. The role focuses on Kubernetes operations, CI/CD automation, hybrid infrastructure management, and security, with opportunities to support AI-powered workloads. This is a hands-on engineering position, ideal for someone who thrives in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

What You'Ll Do

• Deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes clusters in both cloud and on-premises environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using modern automation tools and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Manage hybrid infrastructure ensuring scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Strengthen security and compliance through identity management, network policies, and encryption strategies.
• Implement observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing) to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Optimize infrastructure performance and cloud costs while maintaining high availability.

Key Ares of Expertise

• Kubernetes & Containers: Cluster deployment, scaling, and application delivery.
• Automation & IaC: Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, CI/CD pipelines.
• Hybrid Infrastructure: Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) and on-premises systems.
• Security & Compliance: Zero-trust networking, identity access management, encryption.
• Observability & Reliability: Monitoring, logging, and tracing with industry-standard tools.
• Performance & Cost Optimization: Resource tuning and efficiency improvements.