Position: Senior/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