Lead DevOps Engineer

Skills: AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Production SaaS experience

We 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 Role

- Own AWS multi-account infrastructure architecture (secure-by-design)

- Define infrastructure standards across networking, IAM, logging and disaster recovery

- Ensure scalability, resilience and high availability across production environments

CI/CD & Release Automation

- Design and optimise CI/CD pipelines

- Improve deployment reliability and reduce rollback frequency

- Standardise release processes across engineering teams

Reliability & Observability

- Define and track SLIs/SLOs

- Enhance monitoring, alerting and incident response processes

- Lead post-incident reviews and root cause analysis

- Drive reduction of operational toil

Security & Compliance

- Implement least-privilege IAM models

- Support ISO 27001 and compliance evidence automation

- Partner on cloud cost optimisation strategy

- Improve tagging standards and cost allocation models

- Implement rightsizing and automation policies

About You

- 5+ years’ experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering

- 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

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