Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS) - B2B Contract - Lisbon

Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS) - CloudOps - B2B Contract - Lisbon (initially 100% remote with a view to becoming a hybrid role) - Long Term Project

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Exalto Consulting are currently recruiting for a Lead DevOps engineer, this is to work for a global client on a B2B contract basis.

The contract will be remote initially, with a view to spending a couple of days a week in the office in Lisbon, in the future.

You will lead a team of 8 DevOps engineers.

Required Experience

• 7+ years in DevOps, CloudOps, or SRE roles supporting large-scale SaaS or data driven platforms.
• Deep operational experience with AWS (Fargate, EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM)
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and automation scripting (Python, Bash, TypeScript).
• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Working experience with AI/ML platforms (AWS SageMaker, Kubeflow, MLflow, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with GPU workloads and performance/cost tuning for AI pipelines.
• Knowledge of MongoDB operations and performance optimization.
• Solid understanding of FinOps principles, cost monitoring, and right‑sizing in AWS.
• Experience with observability and incident management (Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

Desired Experience

• Advanced expertise in AWS CDK, including building complex, reusable constructs and pipelines.
• Familiarity with Projen for automating CDK project configuration and management.
• Hands‑on experience with Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
• Exposure to multi‑tenant SaaS platforms and best practices.
• Experience working with AI tools and frameworks.
• Awareness of regulatory compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, HIPAA).

If you have the above experience and are looking for a new B2B contract role in Lisbon, Portugal, please send your CV for immediate consideration as our client are looking to hire ASAP.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Contract

Job function: Information Technology

Industries: Staffing and Recruiting

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