Principal DevOps Engineer - Remote Lead, Infra & HA

Intermedia Intelligent Communications; Portugal; Híbrido; EUR 75 000 - 110 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Intermedia Intelligent Communications is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead infrastructure, automation, and deployments across Windows/Linux platforms. You will define standards, architect end-to-end delivery, and own the IaC strategy with Terraform and automation with Ansible.

Experience with Octopus Deploy and GitHub is essential. The role is primarily remote with occasional Coimbra office visits, supporting a fast-paced, collaborative culture where teamwork, accountability, and

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years (or equivalent) in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure Engineering, including leadership.
• Expert-level experience designing and operating Windows Server HA and clustering (Failover Clustering).
• Strong Linux administration and automation experience (systemd, networking, storage, performance).
• Advanced skills with Terraform and Ansible (architecture, reusable components).
• Strong deployment/release engineering experience with Octopus Deploy and GitHub (release governance, environment promotion, rollback).
• Monitoring/observability expertise with VictoriaMetrics and/or Prometheus (alerting, metrics design).

Responsabilidades

• 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 Windows clustering.
• Lead Linux automation and platform standardization (configuration, patching, hardening, tuning).
• Own Infrastructure as Code strategy with Terraform (modules, environments, state, governance).
• Own automation strategy with Ansible (roles, inventories, secrets handling, idempotency).
• Build and standardize deployments using Octopus Deploy, GitHub, and Ansible (templates, steps, release promotion).
• Design and mature CI/CD pipelines (artifact versioning, approvals, policy-as-code).
• Establish observability standards using VictoriaMetrics/Prometheus (metrics, dashboards).
• Provide production leadership: incident response, RCA, reliability improvements, capacity planning.
• Mentor engineers, review designs/code, raise engineering quality.

Conhecimentos

DevOps leadership

Windows Server HA

Linux administration

Terraform

Ansible

Octopus Deploy

GitHub

Kubernetes

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Ferramentas

Terraform

Ansible

Octopus Deploy

GitHub

VictoriaMetrics/Prometheus

Docker

Kubernetes

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Intermedia Intelligent Communications is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead infrastructure, automation, and deployments across Windows/Linux platforms. You will define standards, architect end-to-end delivery, and own the IaC strategy with Terraform and automation with Ansible.

Experience with Octopus Deploy and GitHub is essential. The role is primarily remote with occasional Coimbra office visits, supporting a fast-paced, collaborative culture where teamwork, accountability, and