We are growing. And we are looking for talented people.

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.

As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long-term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams.

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)!

Responsibilities:

• Lead the onboarding of services and development teams to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and best practices.
• Establish, maintain, and improve Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure, following cloud-native best practices.
• Collaborate closely with software development teams to ensure systems are resilient, observable, fault-tolerant, recoverable, scalable, and performant.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing solutions to detect and respond to incidents.
• Lead incident response activities, ensuring timely resolution and minimal downtime.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and post-mortem reviews to identify improvement opportunities.
• Automate operational tasks, with a particular focus on faster incident detection and recovery.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Communicate system reliability and performance updates effectively to relevant stakeholders.
• Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for production systems.
• Monitor and improve key reliability indicators, including SLO compliance, SLO coverage, detection ratio, Mean Time to Detect (MTTD), Mean Time to Acknowledge (MTTA), and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR).

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a STEM field, preferably Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related area.
• 5+ years of experience in software development and/or IT operations.
• Proficiency in at least one high-level programming language, such as C++, Python, Java, or C#.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Fluency in English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to design, monitor, and improve SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs in line with business requirements.
• Experience with containerisation technologies and orchestration platforms, particularly Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
• Knowledge of automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, or Spacelift.
• Experience with Python, Go, Bash/Shell scripting, or other automation languages and tools.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, ELB, CloudFront, and Lambda.
• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting complex distributed systems.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, ELK Stack, and Prometheus.
• Strong understanding of resilient and fault-tolerant system design.
• Ability to debug complex distributed systems.

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS.
• Experience implementing and improving reliability practices in cloud-native environments.
• Knowledge of different monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions.

Soft Skills:

• Communication: Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing, demonstrating empathy and consideration for others.
• Humility: Ability to acknowledge mistakes, take responsibility, and act quickly to minimise their impact.
• Accountability: Takes ownership of problems and ensures they are followed through to resolution, involving the appropriate people when necessary.
• Negotiation Skills: Ability to manage challenging conversations with colleagues and customers, resolve disagreements, and work towards mutually beneficial solutions.
• Process-Oriented: Strong organisational skills, ability to follow established processes, identify inefficiencies, and suggest improvements.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with a structured approach to breaking down complex problems and identifying effective solutions.

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!

What you can expect from us:

• Long-term projects with national and international context.
• Opportunities to grow technically and professionally.
• A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust.
• Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability.

If you’re interested in this job, please send your CV to with “CA/SiteReliabilityEngineer”.

Find with us the right opportunity to grow!

Thank you! 😊

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.