DevOps Team Lead — Scale, Automation & Reliability

Deel; Portugal; Hybrid; EUR 125,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grant opportunities

Flexible office membership with IWG

Job summary

Deel is seeking a DevOps Team Lead to empower a global engineering team and scale our next-gen infrastructure. You will own CI/CD, IaC, and observability while partnering across product squads to improve reliability and efficiency.

The role emphasizes governance, security, and cost optimization across multiple AWS accounts in a fast-growing SaaS environment. As a leader, you will design self-service tooling, establish golden paths, and drive on-call readiness, incident response, and disaster

Qualifications

• 2+ years managing DevOps/SRE/Platform teams, and 5+ years as a DevOps engineer
• Deep knowledge of AWS - multi-account setups, Managed services including AWS networking skills
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise (EKS): Cluster design, upgrades and multi-cluster operations, including Service mesh, Crossplane, and Cluster Autoscalers, ingress controllers, network policies, RBAC, and workload security and resource tuning
• IaC experience (Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi/Crossplane)
• CI/CD and GitOps experience (GitHub Actions/Jenkins, ArgoCD/Flux, Helm)
• Python, Node.js or Bash scripting
• Database and messaging experience (PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ)
• Observability experience (Prometheus Stack , Coralogix/DataDog OpenTelemetry).
• Security and compliance experience (SOC 2/ISO)
• Production experience with uptime, DR and incident troubleshooting
• Clear communication and a strong sense of ownership
• Nice to have: Go, multi-cloud, FinOps, experience scaling teams across time zones

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a global team of DevOps engineers
• Partner with developers, CloudOps and automation engineers to improve efficiency, scale, reliability and observability across Deel's architecture
• Continuously improve CI/CD, IaC and monitoring
• Own multiple AWS environments across accounts, including governance, security (IAM, secrets, compliance) and cost optimization
• Own reliability: on-call, incident response, post-mortems, SLOs, disaster recovery and capacity planning
• Build self-service tooling and golden paths so engineers can work independently, within shared standards
• Identify bottlenecks and automation opportunities, then implement the fixes
• Set priorities and report to engineering leadership

Skills

DevOps Leadership

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

GitOps

SRE Practices

Python/Node/Bash

Databases

Observability

Security & Compliance

Communication

Multi-account AWS

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Jenkins

Helm

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Crossplane

Kubernetes (EKS)

Job description

Deel is seeking a DevOps Team Lead to empower a global engineering team and scale our next-gen infrastructure. You will own CI/CD, IaC, and observability while partnering across product squads to improve reliability and efficiency.

The role emphasizes governance, security, and cost optimization across multiple AWS accounts in a fast-growing SaaS environment. As a leader, you will design self-service tooling, establish golden paths, and drive on-call readiness, incident response, and disaster