Lead DevOps Engineer
Summary
Hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer owning AWS multi-account infrastructure for a SaaS software company: defining platform standards (networking, IAM, DR), building CI/CD pipelines, driving observability/SLOs and incident response, and supporting ISO 27001 compliance and cost optimisation. Fully remote within Portugal.
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