Lead DevOps Engineer Permanent Location: Portugal - Remote Salary: 100,000 - 110,000 Euros (+ benefits)Skills: AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Production SaaS experienceWe are looking to recruit a Lead DevOps Engineer for a leading software company. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, ideal for someone who enjoys owning AWS infrastructure strategy while remaining close to engineering delivery.You'll play a key role in shaping platform standards, improving reliability, embedding security best practice, and driving automation across the organisation.This is a fully remote role based in Portugal.The RolePlatform Architecture & Cloud EngineeringOwn AWS multi-account infrastructure architecture (secure-by-design) Define infrastructure standards across networking, IAM, logging and disaster recovery Lead Infrastructure-as-Code strategy (Terraform preferred) Ensure scalability, resilience and high availability across production environmentsCI/CD & Release AutomationDesign and optimise CI/CD pipelines Improve deployment reliability and reduce rollback frequency Standardise release processes across engineering teams Implement progressive delivery practicesReliability & ObservabilityDefine and track SLIs/SLOs Enhance monitoring, alerting and incident response processes Lead post-incident reviews and root cause analysis Drive reduction of operational toilSecurity & ComplianceEmbed DevSecOps controls into pipelines Implement least-privilege IAM models Support ISO 27001 and compliance evidence automationFinOps & Cost OptimisationPartner on cloud cost optimisation strategy Improve tagging standards and cost allocation models Implement rightsizing and automation policiesAbout You5+ years' experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering Strong AWS expertise (VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, EKS, Lambda) Proven Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred) CI/CD tooling experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) Experience operating production SaaS environments Strong observability tooling knowledge (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK etc.) Incident management and root cause analysis experience Experience in regulated or security-conscious environments is highly desirable