Senior DevSecOps & AI Automation Engineer

Unleash intelligent automation — engineer secure, scalable platforms that transform DevOps for financial services!

Lisbon- or Porto-based opportunity with a hybrid work model, including up to 2 remote days per week.

As a Senior DevSecOps & AI Automation Engineer, you will be working for our client, a financial services organization supporting Corporate & Investment Banking and Asset & Wealth Management. You will join an Innovation & Development team focused on automation transformation, self-service platform engineering, secure software delivery, and AI-driven operations across the development and deployment ecosystem.

Your main responsibilities:

• Design and implement CI/CD pipeline automation, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps practices, and automated security validation gates.
• Engineer and optimize containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Lead innovation lab activities, prototype emerging technologies, and assess advancements in service mesh, policy-as-code, and observability.
• Build and maintain self-service platform capabilities that enable secure resource provisioning, deployments, and rollbacks without manual intervention.
• Improve developer experience by reducing operational friction, measuring developer toil, and establishing fast feedback loops.
• Drive improvements in DORA metrics, including deployment frequency, lead time, recovery time, and change failure rate.
• Develop AI-driven automation for infrastructure provisioning and incident remediation, supported by appropriate governance and permission frameworks.
• Promote knowledge transfer and support the adoption of innovative technologies across development teams.

You're ideal for this role if you have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent field.
• At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related role.
• At least 3 years of experience driving innovation, prototyping technologies, or leading architectural improvements.
• Expert-level experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux/Unix administration, Git, and multi-cloud environments.
• Practical experience with security automation, including SAST/DAST, container security, secrets management, and policy-as-code.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or Bash, as well as REST APIs and microservices.
• Experience with observability tools and practices, including centralized logging, APM, and distributed tracing.

It is a strong plus if you have:

• Experience working in financial services or other regulated industries.
• Knowledge of AI agents, LLMs in operations, agent governance, sandboxing, or hybrid human-AI workflows.
• Exposure to LangChain or AutoGen.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, Jaeger, or New Relic.

Language Required for the role: Fluent English.

Eligibility for the role: Only candidates with an existing legal right to work in Europe will be considered for this role.

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