Tech Lead, Infra & TechOps — IaC, SRE Mentorship, Cloud

Sovos; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bi-Weekly Meeting Free Days

Mentoring Programs

Globally recognised Training and Devp.

Benefits

Job summary

Sovos is seeking a Technical Lead in DevOps/SRE to accelerate our cloud-native infrastructure, scale Kubernetes clusters and drive reliability engineering. You will mentor SREs and collaborate with software teams to define SLIs/SLOs, deployments, and runbooks, shaping production readiness.

Join a global team and help Sovos deliver secure, observable, and automated infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments, while promoting IaC and best practices throughout the TechOps organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Administrator or Cloud Infrastructure.
• Experience leading or mentoring a group within a complex technical operations structure.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code, cloud environments (AWS) and on-prem VMs.
• Experience with Kubernetes and modern open-source observability stacks like Prometheus/Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical mentor and coach to SREs and TechOps engineers.
• Lead and elevate infrastructure teams, driving a culture of high-velocity execution.
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs and operational standards with software teams.
• Lead design, provisioning, scaling and deployment of cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters.
• Champion IaC, observability and continuous learning across the department.
• Conduct peer reviews for IaC and deployment manifests to ensure production-grade quality.
• Define and maintain disaster recovery plans and runbooks; coach team accordingly.
• Integrate reliability practices and automated testing for infrastructure.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Cloud architecture

SRE/DevOps

Automation

Networking

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Ansible

AWS

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Bash

VictoriaMetrics

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Sovos is seeking a Technical Lead in DevOps/SRE to accelerate our cloud-native infrastructure, scale Kubernetes clusters and drive reliability engineering. You will mentor SREs and collaborate with software teams to define SLIs/SLOs, deployments, and runbooks, shaping production readiness.

Join a global team and help Sovos deliver secure, observable, and automated infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments, while promoting IaC and best practices throughout the TechOps organization.