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Natixis in Portugal

Builds banking technology and runs financial operations

Automation & Innovation Engineer - IT Cib

Platform Engineering +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timePortugalNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience is required.
  • At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related roles is required.
  • At least 3 years of experience driving innovation, prototyping technologies, or leading architectural improvements is required.
  • A proven track record of reducing manual toil and improving team velocity is required.
  • Expert-level knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code principles and practices is required.
  • Strong continuous integration and continuous delivery expertise with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions is required.
  • Deep knowledge of containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes or OpenShift is required.
  • Linux/Unix system administration experience with RHEL, CentOS, or Ubuntu is required.
  • Mastery of Git, including GitFlow and branching strategies, is required.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP is required.
  • Knowledge of application security principles, including OWASP Top 10, is required.
  • Experience automating security scanning with SAST/DAST tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, or ZAP is required.
  • Experience with container security scanning tools such as Trivy or Aqua is required.
  • Experience with secrets management tools such as HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager is required.
  • Knowledge of compliance frameworks including PCI-DSS, GDPR, or SOX is required.
  • Experience with security policy-as-code tools such as OPA or Kyverno is required.
  • Understanding of AI agents and LLM applications in operations is required.
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering and LLM-based tooling is required.
  • Conceptual knowledge of agent governance, permission systems, and sandboxing is required.
  • Exposure to AI agent frameworks such as LangChain or AutoGen is required.
  • Understanding of hybrid human-AI workflow design is required.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog is required.
  • Experience with centralized logging tools such as ELK, Splunk, or CloudWatch is required.
  • Experience with application performance monitoring and distributed tracing tools such as Jaeger, Datadog, or New Relic is required.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or Bash is required.
  • Knowledge of REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems is required.
  • Knowledge of software design principles and testing strategies is required.
  • Familiarity with financial services or regulated industries is preferred.
  • An innovation mindset, entrepreneurial drive, communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders, collaboration across Development, Security, and Operations, a teaching mindset, and continuous learning are required.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement CI/CD pipeline automation across CIB.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code principles and tooling.
  • Establish GitOps principles for configuration management and deployment.
  • Automate security validation, compliance checks, and dependency scanning.
  • Drive adoption of containerization and orchestration technologies.
  • Create self-healing infrastructure that minimizes human intervention.
  • Eliminate manual security reviews through automated security gates.
  • Lead innovation lab activities by prototyping and validating emerging automation technologies, including service mesh, policy-as-code, advanced observability, and GitOps tools.
  • Conduct technology watch activities on DevOps, security automation, and AI4DevOps trends.
  • Create proof-of-concept implementations for emerging tools and frameworks and de-risk their adoption before enterprise-wide rollout.
  • Transfer innovations and competencies to Development Squad and Business IT teams.
  • Establish automation excellence center standards and best practices, and present findings and recommendations to the CIB CIO community.
  • Design and maintain an internal platform for CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, and security scanning.
  • Create Platform-as-a-Service abstractions that hide infrastructure complexity and enable secure code deployments without manual security reviews.
  • Establish the platform as a reusable asset for IT Transversal, GMT, and GBCR teams, and build self-service provisioning, deployment, and rollback capabilities.
  • Document and promote platform usage through training and community building.
  • Measure developer toil, enable fast feedback loops, design frictionless onboarding, and build tools that reduce the need for developers to understand infrastructure.
  • Conduct regular feedback sessions with development teams to identify pain points.
  • Drive improvements to deployment frequency, lead time for changes, time to recovery, change failure rates, automation coverage, platform adoption, developer toil, developer satisfaction, and innovation impact.
  • Design and deploy AI agents for infrastructure provisioning, deployment automation, and incident remediation.
  • Establish AI agent governance frameworks, including permission systems, privilege boundaries, containment strategies, audit trails, and decision logging.
  • Implement AI-driven threat modeling and proactive security hardening using LLMs to anticipate adversary behavior.
  • Build observability and tracing for AI agents, including causal graph tracing and confidence metrics.
  • Design data governance policies for AI agents to prevent data exfiltration and implement redaction.
  • Develop predictable, idempotent infrastructure code suitable for AI agent consumption.
  • Establish hybrid human-AI workflows with clear escalation paths.

Desired Qualifications

  • Open-source contribution or community involvement is preferred.
  • Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd is preferred.
  • Experience with GitOps platforms such as ArgoCD or Flux is preferred.
  • Incident response and postmortem facilitation experience is preferred.

About the Company

Natixis in Portugal

Builds banking technology and runs financial operations

Natixis in Portugal builds technology and runs banking support activities for Groupe BPCE's international businesses. Its work spans corporate and investment banking and asset and wealth management, with teams that connect software development to financial operations and compliance. The hub develops solutions for internal business lines and platforms, combining engineering with the operational processes that financial institutions use. As a branch of Natixis, its work supports the group's financial businesses and their day-to-day operations across markets. The Portuguese hub began with technology teams in 2016 and is headquartered in Porto, with an office in Lisbon.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Not listed
Founded
2016

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