DevOps engineer for data platform

At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent. We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the DART data platform, working as part of the integration team.
• Act as the primary backup for the lead developer in architecture-related decisions, ensuring technical consistency and alignment with established standards.
• Conduct code reviews for infrastructure and automation changes, ensuring code quality, reliability and maintainability.
• Develop, maintain and extend Python-based microservices, including containerised Kafka consumer services deployed as headless AWS ECS Fargate tasks.
• Develop and maintain serverless REST APIs using AWS Lambda, supporting data access and implementing API versioning and alias strategies.
• Build and maintain operational scripts to automate recurring tasks and streamline platform operations.
• Support Confluent CLI operations and automate infrastructure and platform management activities.
• Work with AWS, Kubernetes, Confluent Cloud and Snowflake within an integrated data platform environment.
• Contribute to the development and operation of data products exposed through event streams, APIs and data stores.
• Support the reliability, scalability and operational efficiency of data platform services.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure and data engineering teams to deliver robust, production-ready solutions.

• Proven experience in DevOps, preferably in Platform Engineering or Data Engineering roles.
• Strong Python development skills, including classes, metaprogramming, data classes and type validation.
• Experience in API engineering, algorithmic patterns, AWS Lambda handlers, data transformation applications and automation scripts.
• Solid knowledge of AWS cloud services, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM and CloudWatch.
• Experience with version control and collaborative development workflows, including Git, CI/CD pipelines, conventional commits and merge requests.
• Experience with shell scripting for operational automation and command-line operations.
• Knowledge of data platform infrastructure and database operations, including relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience working with SQL and structured data formats such as JSON and XML.
• Familiarity with streaming platforms, particularly Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka, including topics, producers and consumers.
• Knowledge of AWS Lambda configuration and AWS ECS or other container orchestration technologies.
• Experience with containerised applications and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams and contribute to architectural discussions.
• Будет плюсом: AWS certifications are valued

• Are you looking for an environment that values curiosity and commitment? Here, your contribution has real impact and individual growth is taken seriously.
• Find with us the right opportunity to grow!
• Long-term projects with national and international context (if applicable).
• Opportunities to grow technically and professionally.
• A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust.
• Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability.