Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS) - B2B Contract - Lisbon
Summary
B2B contract role for a global client, leading a team of 8 DevOps engineers from Lisbon (initially fully remote, moving to hybrid). Day-to-day is AWS-centric: EKS/Fargate, Kubernetes, CI/CD (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins), AI/ML platform support, MongoDB, FinOps cost tuning, and observability with Splunk/Grafana.
Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS) - CloudOps - B2B Contract - Lisbon (initially 100% remote with a view to becoming a hybrid role) - Long Term Project
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Exalto Consulting are currently recruiting for a Lead DevOps engineer, this is to work for a global client on a B2B contract basis.
The contract will be remote initially, with a view to spending a couple of days a week in the office in Lisbon, in the future.
You will lead a team of 8 DevOps engineers.
Required Experience
- 7+ years in DevOps, CloudOps, or SRE roles supporting large-scale SaaS or data driven platforms.
- Deep operational experience with AWS (Fargate, EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM)
- Proficiency with CI/CD tools (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and automation scripting (Python, Bash, TypeScript).
- Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
- Working experience with AI/ML platforms (AWS SageMaker, Kubeflow, MLflow, or equivalent).
- Familiarity with GPU workloads and performance/cost tuning for AI pipelines.
- Knowledge of MongoDB operations and performance optimization.
- Solid understanding of FinOps principles, cost monitoring, and right‑sizing in AWS.
- Experience with observability and incident management (Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Desired Experience
- Advanced expertise in AWS CDK, including building complex, reusable constructs and pipelines.
- Familiarity with Projen for automating CDK project configuration and management.
- Hands‑on experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Exposure to multi‑tenant SaaS platforms and best practices.
- Experience working with AI tools and frameworks.
- Awareness of regulatory compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, HIPAA).
If you have the above experience and are looking for a new B2B contract role in Lisbon, Portugal, please send your CV for immediate consideration as our client are looking to hire ASAP.
Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment type: Contract
Job function: Information Technology
Industries: Staffing and Recruiting
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Skills
- AI
- Argo CD
- Automation
- AWS
- Bash
- CDK
- CI/CD
- CloudWatch
- DevOps
- EC2
- EKS
- FinOps
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- Grafana
- Helm
- Hipaa
- IAM
- ISO 27001
- Jenkins
- Kubeflow
- Kubernetes
- Lambda
- Machine Learning
- MLflow
- MongoDB
- Nist
- Observability
- OpenTelemetry
- Python
- RDS
- Regulatory Compliance
- S3
- SaaS
- SageMaker
- SOC 2
- Splunk
- TypeScript