Principal DevOps Engineer/Team Lead
Intermedia Intelligent Communications6 months ago
Remote, PortugalStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set direction, standards, and best practices for DevOps, platform, and release engineering.
- Architect and govern infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD, release processes, and operations.
- Design, maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot Windows-based high-availability and failover-clustering solutions.
- Lead Linux automation, platform standardization, patching, hardening, and performance tuning.
- Own Terraform Infrastructure as Code and Ansible automation strategies.
- Build standardized deployments with Octopus Deploy, GitHub, and Ansible, including release promotion and rollback.
- Design and mature CI/CD pipelines with artifact versioning, approvals, promotion strategies, and policy-as-code where applicable.
- Establish metrics, alerting, dashboards, and SLO/SLA monitoring standards using VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus.
- Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, postmortems, reliability improvements, and capacity planning.
- Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and maintain architecture documentation, runbooks, and platform roadmaps.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 7+ years or equivalent experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, including leadership in complex environments.
- Expert experience designing and operating Windows Server high-availability and clustering environments.
- Strong Linux administration and automation experience, including systemd, networking, storage, and performance tuning.
- Advanced Terraform and Ansible skills covering architecture, reusable components, and secure operations.
- Strong Octopus Deploy and GitHub deployment and release-engineering experience.
- Monitoring and observability expertise with VictoriaMetrics and/or Prometheus.
- Production experience running Redis, RabbitMQ, and Nginx in high-availability environments.
- Strong understanding of TLS, DNS, load balancing, firewalling, and least-privilege security fundamentals.
- Ability to lead cross-team initiatives, make architectural decisions, and communicate clearly.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.
- Preferred experience includes GitLab CI, Jenkins, ELK/EFK, Loki, PowerShell, Vault, SOPS, VMware, Hyper-V, MS SQL Server, SIP, FreeSwitch, OpenSIP, F5 LTM, F5 GTM, AWS, and Azure.
Benefits
- Primarily remote work with occasional visits to the Coimbra office and potential future offices in Aveiro and Porto.
- A teamwork- and transparency-focused culture with opportunities for promotion from within.
- Equal-opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation commitments.