Site Reliability Engineer - GCP

We are building a world-class team and looking for a Senior SRE to join us. In this role, you will be a cornerstone of our Infrastructure and DevOps department, driving the evolution of platforms that power our industry-leading products. You will collaborate directly with mobile, web, and backend teams to ensure our GCP-based infrastructure is resilient, scalable, and optimized for high-performance delivery.

This project focuses on maturing our DevOps transformation. You will be responsible for architecting and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, implementing advanced observability (Monitoring/Logging), and ensuring that our mobile backend infrastructure on GCP follows the highest standards of security and well-architected principles.

National and international expected traveling time: 0%-15% estimated (project-dependent).

Requirements

What you will be doing:

• Architect & Refine Observability: Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies using GCP native tools (Cloud Monitoring/Logging) and open-source solutions (Prometheus/Grafana).
• Automate Infrastructure: Provision and manage complex GCP resources using Terraform, ensuring consistent Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Optimize CI/CD: Maintain and evolve Continuous Integration and Deployment pipelines to accelerate delivery without sacrificing stability.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with backend and mobile engineering teams to optimize deployment, performance, and observability for mobile backends.
• Security & Governance: Enforce security best practices within GCP infrastructure configurations and deployment workflows.
• Strategic Improvement: Proactively identify bottlenecks in the infrastructure and implement architectural improvements to GCP services (Cloud Run, BigQuery, Networking).
• Knowledge Engineering: Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation for deployment architectures and troubleshooting frameworks.

Expertise we are looking for:

• Senior DevOps/SRE Experience: 3+ years of proven track record in infrastructure evolution and DevOps transformations.
• GCP Deep Dive: Strong proficiency in Google Cloud Platform, specifically Cloud Run, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Networking.
• IaC Mastery: Solid experience with Terraform for large-scale resource provisioning.
• Containerization: Expertise in Docker and managing containerized workloads.
• Observability Stack: Hands-on experience with GCP’s operations suite, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Automation/Scripting: Proficiency in Go, Python, or TypeScript/JS for automation and custom tooling.
• Optimize CI/CD: using Github Actions, Git Lab, ArgoCD (or others similiar)
• Agile Mindset: A strong preference for dynamic environments and a high degree of autonomy in problem-solving.
• Security Focus: Practical knowledge of cloud security best practices and compliance.

Benefits

The Things We Really Care About:Expertise we are looking for:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote from Portugal is also an option. Remote from other Countries will depend on your current location and Projects.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

Check out our Blog and our Handbook!

Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil