Principal DevOps Engineer

TL;DR

Principal DevOps Engineer: Serve as technical lead and architect for infrastructure, automation, and deployments with an accent on Windows clustering, end-to-end reliability, and IaC strategies. Focus on designing high availability solutions, maturing CI/CD pipelines, establishing observability standards, and leading production incident response and mentoring.

All candidates must be located in Portugal. Hybrid working style, with an office in Coimbra and plans to open offices in Aveiro and Porto in the future. Flexibility to work remotely while coming together in the office for collaboration.

Company

Leading provider of cloud communications and collaboration tech with a strong track record of growth, profitability, and long-term employee retention.

What you will do

• Act as technical lead for DevOps/Platform/Release engineering: set direction, standards, and best practices
• Architect and govern end-to-end delivery: infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD, release processes, and operations
• Design and support Windows-based high availability solutions, with deep ownership of Windows clustering
• Lead Linux automation and platform standardization, including configuration, patching, hardening, and performance tuning
• Own Infrastructure as Code strategy with Terraform and automation with Ansible
• Build and standardize deployments using Octopus Deploy, GitHub, and Ansible
• Design CI/CD pipelines, establish observability with VictoriaMetrics/Prometheus, and provide production leadership including incident response and mentoring

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 7+ years in DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure Engineering, including leadership in complex environments
• Expert-level experience designing and operating Windows Server HA and clustering
• Strong Linux administration and automation experience
• Advanced skills with Terraform, Ansible, Octopus Deploy, GitHub, VictoriaMetrics/Prometheus
• Production experience with Redis, RabbitMQ, Nginx
• Strong networking and security fundamentals
• Proven ability to lead cross-team initiatives

Nice to have

• CI/CD platforms like GitLab CI, Jenkins
• Logging platforms (ELK/EFK, Loki)
• DR/BCP design, PowerShell scripting, secrets tooling
• Virtualization (VMWare, HyperV), MS SQL Server HA
• VOIP components (SIP, FreeSwitch), load balancing (F5), AWS/Azure

Culture & Benefits

• Teamwork and transparency culture where voices are heard and everyone matters
• Fast-paced environment with great people, accountability, and promotion from within
• Hybrid flexibility with office collaboration
• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and accommodations