Lively set out to raise the bar on benefit solutions, because we believe no one should have to sacrifice personal wellness for financial wellness. While traditional benefits focus more on transactions and less on the humans using them, Lively harnesses user-centric design and innovative technology to deliver an effortless experience for employers and account holders alike. Our modern HSA is consistently top-rated, and we have since expanded our offerings to provide a full suite of other benefits and services for companies, consumers, and financial institutions.
Lively is a remote-first company, headquartered in San Francisco with employees across the US. Come join us and help make getting the value out of your benefits as simple as it should be.
About the Role
We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Portugal to help us run and evolve the platform behind Lively's HSA, FSA, card and benefits products. You'll own infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes end to end โ from Terraform and GitOps delivery to observability, security and disaster recovery โ working with a small, senior team and engineers across the US and Europe.
Responsibilities
Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure with Terraform across multiple accounts and environments
Operate and upgrade production EKS clusters; manage workloads with Helm and ArgoCD (GitOps)
Improve our GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and self-hosted runner fleet
Own observability (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and take part in the on-call rotation
Drive security and compliance work: vulnerability remediation, runtime security, access controls and PCI/SOC 2 evidence
Lead resilience initiatives such as multi-region disaster recovery and data replication
Partner with engineering, data and security teams to make shipping fast and safe
Write clear docs and runbooks, and mentor others on infrastructure best practices
Skills & Experience
5+ years in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering roles
Production experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm and ArgoCD (or similar GitOps tooling)
CI/CD with GitHub Actions or equivalent
Solid Linux and scripting skills (Bash, plus Python, TypeScript or Go)
Experience with monitoring, alerting and incident response
Security-first mindset; fintech, healthcare or PCI experience is a strong plus
Excellent written and spoken English; able to overlap a few hours a day with US time zones
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Portugal; we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the qualifications, but feel you would be a good fit for the position.
The base salary listed is a range for this position. Actual pay will depend on the candidateโs location and experience.
โฌ85.000โโฌ95.000 EUR
We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the qualifications, but feel you would be a good fit for the position.
Benefits & Perks
We offer competitive salaries, stock options, medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage. An HSA with employer contribution, FSA, paid parental leave, medical travel benefits, a 401k plan, flexible vacation policy, lifestyle spending accounts, and more!
At Lively, we believe having diverse teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to our success. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.ย Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.ย Come join us in our mission to help people optimize their healthcare spending, maximize their savings, and better their livelihood!
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