Nearshore Sector | Dev / DevOps Senior Tech Lead

Description

You will be the main technical lead for a Dev/DevOps team in Portugal, working nearshore for a major aerospace customer.

The role covers coaching engineers, taking on complex L2/L3 escalations and driving both application and infrastructure work.

You will work with engineering teams in Portugal and France to build reliable AWS serverless systems and keep Run and Build work connected.

The company is a digital transformation firm with €1B in revenue, serving clients across more than 20 EMEA countries, with more than 10,000 people working in cloud, data and cyber security.

Responsibilities

• Guide and mentor the Dev/DevOps engineers, setting a high bar for code quality and architecture.
• Build and maintain application code in Go and Angular/TypeScript, along with AWS Serverless infrastructure written in Terraform.
• Investigate complex L2/L3 escalations, carry out root cause analysis and deliver fast fixes for high-impact issues.
• Own CI/CD automation, automated testing and deployments across development, QA and production.
• Contribute to the build backlog by delivering core features, refactoring services and improving scalability.
• Pass knowledge from the French build teams and make sure L2 to L3 operational support is handed over smoothly.
• Review code in depth, apply cloud architecture best practices and tune system performance.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, cloud architecture and DevOps.
• Be strong in Go for backend work and in Angular with TypeScript for frontend work.
• Have deep knowledge of AWS Serverless services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3 and DynamoDB or Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Have hands-on experience writing and managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Have a proven record with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and cloud deployment strategies.
• Have previously handled L2/L3 production support, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Speak and write fluent English.

Conditions

The role is based in Portugal and works with a major aerospace customer in a nearshore setup.

Hiring and promotion are based on merit, and all roles are open to people with disabilities.