About the Role
We are looking for an experienced DevOps / Cloud Platform Engineer to join the Amadeus Travel Ready project, a digital identity platform that helps airlines and airports simplify passenger verification and border compliance through mobile and cloud-based technologies. The platform operates on a cloud-native Microsoft Azure architecture, supporting mobile SDKs and highly available backend services for critical airline use cases. As the platform enters a period of production growth and increasing technical complexity, you will play a key role in strengthening its reliability, delivery automation, security, observability, and operational maturity.
Responsibilities
•Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines supporting mobile SDKs and backend services.
•Automate build, integration, testing, packaging, and deployment processes.
•Implement reliable deployment workflows across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
•Improve pipeline security, execution speed, traceability, and maintainability.
•Reduce manual deployment activities and operational risk.
•Support controlled releases, rollback processes, and production validation.
•Implement and improve GitOps practices for platform configuration and application deployment.
•Maintain declarative environment configurations through Git.
•Use Helm to package, configure, and deploy applications.
•Manage and evolve cloud infrastructure running on Microsoft Azure.
•Ensure cloud resources are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-conscious.
•Troubleshoot infrastructure and connectivity issues.
•Manage containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
•Improve cluster and application resilience.
•Define and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
•Develop reusable and maintainable Infrastructure as Code modules.
•Automate the provisioning of environments and platform services.
•Implement and improve platform monitoring, logging, and alerting.
•Build actionable dashboards and alerts.
•Improve troubleshooting through centralized logs, metrics, and traces.
•Support production environments and ensure platform availability.
•Investigate and resolve incidents across cloud, Kubernetes, application, and pipeline layers.
•Participate in root cause analysis and corrective-action definition.
•Improve platform resilience and reduce recurring operational issues.
•Support capacity planning, performance improvements, and platform scalability.
Requirements
•3–6 years of relevant experience for Advanced profiles; more than 6 years of relevant experience for Senior profiles.
•Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
•Solid production experience with Azure Kubernetes Service.
•Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, and GitOps.
•Experience with GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI/CD.
•Experience with Argo CD, Flux CD, or equivalent GitOps solutions.
•Experience deploying applications using Helm.
•Knowledge of cloud storage, networking, and identity concepts.
•Experience with production operations and incident resolution.
•Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices.
•Experience managing secrets with HashiCorp Vault or a comparable solution.
•Knowledge of artifact management using Artifactory, NuGet, or similar repositories.
•Understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and backend architectures.
•Experience supporting automated integration, performance, load, or stress testing.
•Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
•Professional fluency in written and spoken English.
•Availability to work on-site in Carnaxide approximately 50% of the week.
•Ability to independently identify and drive platform improvements.
•Strong sense of accountability for production reliability.
•Proactive approach to automation and operational improvement.
•Strong troubleshooting and analytical capabilities.
•Ability to collaborate effectively within a multicultural environment.
•Strong learning mindset.
Nice to Have
•Experience supporting airline, airport, travel, or digital identity platforms.
•Experience with high-availability and business-critical platforms.
•Strong production experience with OpenShift.
•Knowledge of mobile SDK build and release processes.
•Experience defining platform reliability or operational metrics.
•Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code testing.
•Experience improving the security of CI/CD pipelines.
•Exposure to SRE practices and service-level indicators.
•Practical experience applying AI tools to DevOps or platform automation.
Conditions
No conditions stated in the posting.
