Staff DevOps Engineer

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. Responsibilities Lead 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. Qualifications 9+ 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