Staff DevOps

Position: Staff Devops Engineer

Location: Portugal

Contract: Permanent FTE position

My client are looking for a Staff / Principal DevOps Engineer to lead the design, evolution, and operation of their cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities. This role is for a highly experienced engineer who enjoys staying hands on while also setting direction, mentoring others, and influencing technical decisions across teams.

• ResponsibilitiesLead the architecture and operation of cloud infrastructure and DevOps platforms in AWS
• Design and evolve microservice based, cloud native systems using Kubernetes and Docker
• Own and improve infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling
• Define standards for observability, monitoring, alerting, and reliability
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex production issues and architectural decisions
• Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure systems are production-ready and scalable
• Coach and mentor engineers, contributing to technical growth, best practices, and culture

Unfortunately, no sponsorship support for this position and you must be based in Portugal already.

• Qualifications9+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE or Platform Engineering roles
• Hands on AWS experience in production environments
• Proven experience building and operating microservices architectures
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and automation
• Solid experience with Kubernetes and container based platforms
• Strong infrastructure provisioning experience using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Experience designing and running monitoring and observability stacks, such as:
• Prometheus / Grafana
• CloudWatch
• Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, or ELK
• Working knowledge of databases such as Postgres, MongoDB, and DynamoDB
• Hands on experience with Java or Python
• Demonstrated experience mentoring and coaching engineer