DevOps Lead

Join Europe's leading, high-growth Google Cloud consultancy. At Qodea, you’ll be part of a team energised by innovation and passionate about delivering exceptional results. We craft cutting-edge solutions in data and analytics, AI, cloud infrastructure and security, driving digital transformation that empowers our customers to scale, modernise and lead in their industries. We’re driven by ideas and powered by our people.

We are looking for a DevOps Lead to become a highly trusted advisor to our customers and drive internal standards.

The purpose of this role is to work closely with our team and ensure that the projects we develop for our customers are aligned to their requirements.

• Act as a trusted advisor to customers, developing a deep understanding of their technical challenges and leveraging GCP technologies, patterns and practices to address them effectively.
• Provide expert technical guidance and mentorship to platform engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
• Design highly available, cloud native platforms tailored to customer needs
• Advise customers on modern software development and architecture techniques such as 12 factor applications, microservices and serverless architectures
• Develop internal tooling for the wider Platform Team, that can help us to do more, and be more effective
• Develop and implement with your team’s help, automations and ways of working with the sole  objective of increasing the efficiency  within the team. 
• Collaborate with customers and our Pre-sales Team/ CSM team to translate requirements into technical designs and guide the process through to solution delivery
• Act as a trustworthy advisor  for our customers, ensuring they  will obtain the best advice and required guidance on what the solution for their business needs  could be.
• Identify the long term impact of designs, advising stakeholders of the risk and suggesting potential secure solutions, or involving the relevant stakeholders  from within Qodea. 
• Proactively pursue the decision making process required to drive the  team to  success, including potential cost analysis  based on (amongst  other things) time management related conclusions. 
• Partner with our support teams to support the shift left activities
• Keep abreast of technology developments, ensuring the Qodea business remains ahead of the technology curve.
• Represent Qodea in external engagements with Google and the wider tech community, when applicable. We can align this to your strengths, for example technical writing or presenting at events. 

Requirements

• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments, with a deep understanding of container orchestration and management.
• Proficient in infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, and comfortable with configuration management tooling such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt.
• Expert-level understanding of Linux operating systems (e.g., Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS) with experience in some systems administration and troubleshooting
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tools, such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar pipelines, with a focus on automation and reliability
• Solid knowledge of modern internet protocols and patterns, including but not limited to GRPC, GraphQL, REST APIs, and related tools.
• Proven experience in a cloud focussed delivery role (DevOps or Software Development)
• You’re proactive and you like to solve problems. You want to get involved and make things happen, ensuring the best outcomes for your team, the business and our customers
• Previous experience in a consultancy or professional services role
• Previous experience in managing the team as team leader
• Solid knowledge of cloud architecture principles and highly available systems
• Understanding of application development, delivery and infrastructure automation
• Comfortable writing production-quality software in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g. Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, C++)

Exceptional performance in this role can lead to advancement opportunities within our career framework or internal opportunities with other business areas, aligned with your career aspirations and business needs.

Benefits

• We are a team of passionate people who genuinely care about what they do and the standard of work they produce

• Whilst we’re remote first, we have two hubs in Portugal: Lisbon and Porto
• 25 days’ annual leave, Juneteenth, your birthday off, and a paid office closure between Christmas and New Year's.
• Health insurance
• 15 days of paid sickness and wellness days
• A generous learning and development budget and an annual leadership development programme
• A strong company culture that includes weekly meetings, company updates, team socials, and celebrations
• In-house DE&I council and mental health first-aiders

At Qodea, we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team, and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all. If you feel we can improve in any way, please reach out to our careers team via email at [email protected] or connect with us on LinkedIn via our Qodea Company Page.

We are a global technology group, headquartered in London.
We deploy experts and frontier technology, like AI, to help organisations thrive through change.

We have over 600 professionals (>75% hands-on technical talent) spread across Europe, North America and Asia, and are backed by Marlin Equity Partners.

High stakes work for high calibre people.

Our customers call us when deadlines seem impossible.
When others have already tried and failed.
When it absolutely has to work.

This is work that leaves a mark.
Work you'll want to tell your friends about.
Work that matters.

We often solve problems that don't have answers yet.
And we're looking for people who want to do the same.