Senior DevOps Lead

Crossjoin Solutions, founded in 2009, is a Portuguese IT company serving over 30 clients across Europe, Latin America, and North America. Through our services, we support tens of millions of consumers in numerous countries worldwide..

We provide consulting services across a broad range of sectors reliant on information systems, including banking, insurance, healthcare, automotive, finance, and telecommunications. Our expertise covers end-to-end performance optimization, enterprise testing, major incident troubleshooting and resolution, full-stack architecture advisory, continuous integration, deployment acceleration, and infrastructure managed services.

We are seeking a skilled DevOps Lead and Release Automation Architect to manage an engineering squad of 4-5 members, driving the strategic modernization of our software delivery pipelines for a major telecommunications client project. This role requires a blend of hands-on release automation expertise, technical leadership, and innovation in CI/CD, cloud, and AI-driven DevOps practices.

Responsibilities:

• Direct, mentor, and manage a DevOps engineering team

• Define technical backlogs, lead sprint planning, and establish KPIs for pipelines

• Architect and automate CI/CD workflows using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions

• Implement automated database migration frameworks for Cosmos DB and Apache Cassandra

• Replace manual release and database script interventions with automation

• Enable pipeline-to-Jira traceability, enforcing deployment protection rules

• Maintain audit trails for compliance

• Increase deployment frequency and reduce change failure through innovative solutions

• Integrate AI-driven workflows for release readiness, PR remediation, and build failure triage

Requirements:

• Experience leading, managing, or mentoring DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering teams

• Senior level proficiency in Azure DevOps, pipeline scripting, and deployment workflows

• Strong practical knowledge of AKS, Helm charts, and JFrog Artifactory

• Experience with SonarQube, PR peer reviews, and automated Jira integration

• Familiarity with build and deployment for Spring Boot and Angular applications

• Proficiency in English (minimum B2)

Nice to have:

• Experience with Liquibase or Flyway for DB migrations (Cosmos DB, Cassandra)

• Skills in Terraform or Azure Bicep for infrastructure as code

• Exposure to AI-driven automation in CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with SBOM/vulnerability scanning using JFrog or GitHub Advanced Security

Work Regime & Additional Info:

• Hybrid work: 3 days onsite required

• Participation in night/early morning release windows (approx. every two weeks)

• Availability to work on Canada time and occasional travel to Canada (2 weeks minimum, up to 1 month)

• Future monthly Sunday releases (5am-2pm Portugal time except November)

We offer:

• Integration in a dynamic, goal-oriented and cooperative team;

• Health Insurance extensible to the family;

• Crosser Assistance Program (Psychology, Psychosocial, Financial, Legal and Nutrition consultations);

• Career Plan transversal to the entire company;

• Monthly gym subscription;

• Team-building events.

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