Hybrid Senior DevOps Analyst

at N5X

• Job title: Senior DevOps Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, DNS, Docker, Java, Postgres, Python, TCP/IP, Terraform, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sao Paulo, Brazil

About the role

• Senior DevOps Analyst at N5X responsible for cloud architecture and fintech solutions in energy market. Collaborating with teams to implement observability and manage cloud costs.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): design and provision infrastructure on AWS using Terraform or CloudFormation, ensuring reproducible and auditable environments.
• CI/CD Pipelines: create and optimize automated deployment pipelines (focus on GitHub Actions) for Java applications and microservices.
• Containerization & Orchestration: manage and scale applications using AWS Fargate (ECS) or EKS, ensuring high availability.
• Observability: implement proactive monitoring, logging and tracing to anticipate incidents before they impact the business.
• FinOps: monitor, report and optimize cloud costs, ensuring optimal use of instances and resources and avoiding waste.
• Security (DevSecOps): manage identities (IAM), networks (VPC, Security Groups) and ensure regulatory compliance from the first commit.
• Culture: promote DevOps culture across the team, reduce toil (repetitive manual work) and support developers in resolving infrastructure issues.

Requirements

• Cloud Native: deep expertise in AWS and Azure (Compute, Networking, Storage, Database).
• Automation: strong experience with GitHub Actions and building complex pipelines.
• IaC: proven experience with Terraform, Ansible or AWS CDK.
• Containers: expertise with Docker and orchestration (ECS/Fargate preferred).
• Databases: knowledge of RDS administration and maintenance (Postgres/Aurora).
• Scripting: fluency in Python, Bash or Go for task automation.
• Billing & Cost Management: experience managing billing, analyzing cloud costs and implementing budgets and spend alerts.
• Networking: intermediate to advanced knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/s), network segmentation (subnets), VPNs and load balancers.
• Leadership: demonstrated ability to lead and propose technical solutions.
• Strategic mindset aligned with the startup’s business objectives.
• Ability to maximize the efficiency of available technological resources.
• Excellent communication skills to ensure effective alignment.
• Proactive attitude toward innovation and proof-of-concept testing.
• Familiarity with the financial and/or energy market requirements.
• Experience designing distributed applications, the infrastructure development lifecycle, and application pipelines/deployments (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Ability to make architectural decisions considering cost vs. benefit vs. risk.
• Experience in system architecture design, microservices, high-data-volume applications that are resilient, scalable and secure.
• Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum), their rituals and tools (Jira and Miro).
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly to new technologies.
• Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English.

Benefits

• Bonus: Up to 2 salaries per year.
• Work model: Hybrid - 3 days in the office per week, participation in team in-person rituals (currently quarterly), in-person meetings with stakeholders and events.
• Meal allowance: R$ 42.00 per working day.
• Food allowance: R$ 800.00 per month.
• Transportation allowance.
• Health plan: Amil with copayment for the employee and their beneficiaries - children and spouse.
• Life insurance: MetLife up to R$150,000.
• Childcare support.
• Financial assistance for employees with children with disabilities.