Automation and DevOps Engineer Lisboa

Automation and DevOps Engineer
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Overview

Automation and Dev
Ops Engineer role at Vodafone.

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What You’ll Do

By connecting people, places, and things, Vodafone Io
T enables organisations to thrive in the digital world. Leveraging our expertise in connectivity, our advanced Io
T platform, and our extensive global reach, we deliver the results necessary for our customers' progress and success. We support businesses of all sizes and sectors in their efforts to connect for a better future.

The Vodafone Internet of Things (Io
T) suite of products and services is specifically designed to meet the demands of emerging business verticals. Our connection base has experienced a 20%
-
- year growth, reaching over 200 million connections by the end of the financial year 2025. Vodafone Io
T maintains its leadership as a
- time consecutive leader in the Io
T Connectivity Gartner Magic Quadrant. To address the technological needs of Io
T, Vodafone has developed an
- leading Io
T Connectivity Management Platform, targeting key strategic growth opportunities to meet the global requirements of Io
T customers.

Vodafone has also carved out the Io
T Connectivity business to secure additional external investment and maintain our leading position in the industry through the following:

• Continue accelerating and enhancing our Platform as a Service for Vodafone customers on footprint
• Introduce service propositions in markets beyond Vodafone's current footprint (US and France)
• Address long tail lower volume segment through digital
  - service platform globally

We seek an Automation & Dev
Ops Engineer to be focused on the Observability journey for our Io
T Platform Engineering team. This role reports to the Io
T Dev
Ops Team Lead and includes the following responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the Io
  T observability and monitoring strategy across systems, services, and applications to ensure
  - time visibility and operational resilience
• Collaborate with
  - functional teams—including Development, Operations, and Security—to define observability requirements across CI/CD pipelines, microservices, and Io
  T platforms
• Foster a proactive monitoring culture by enabling teams with the right tools, practices, and automation to detect and prevent incidents before they impact users
• Design, build, and maintain dashboards and reporting frameworks that provide actionable insights into system health, availability, and performance trends
• Embed Dev
  Sec
  Ops principles into observability workflows to enhance security without compromising delivery speed or quality
• Ensure all automation, CI/CD, and monitoring solutions align with Vodafone’s security and compliance standards
• Support the design and ongoing refinement of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) plans, ensuring Io
  T systems are resilient and recoverable in the event of disruptions
• Engineering excellence – we deliver new capabilities and services in an efficient way, making sure our Io
  T platform is secure, scalable,
  - proof and cost effective
• Delivery focus – we deliver the expected customer experience, results for the business and hit our financial metrics
• Stakeholder management – we are collaborating with our business partners as one from delivery, communication and
  -
  - day relationship view point
• Improve the Connectivity service delivered to Vodafone Io
  T customers
• Assure the proper dimensioning for the owned Io
  T platforms, guaranteeing capacity is used efficiently
• Guarantee owned Io
  T Connectivity platforms can cope with new products being delivered to Io
  T customers
• Manage stakeholders and vendors as required for the technical delivery and report project progress & activities

Who You Are

• Degree in Software Engineering or related discipline with Computer Science
• Proven Experience working with system monitoring toolchains including metrics instrumentation and monitoring in distributed systems – valued direct operational experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki and Tempo
• Good understanding of Dev
  Ops methodology mindset, CI/CD best practices and agile principles
• Understanding of Open
  Telemetry concepts, traces, logs and metrics; direct experience is highly valued
• Comfortable working in a Kubernetes and Docker containerized environment
• Proven experience with git and version control workflows
• Comfortable with scripting using bash, python, groovy
• Experience with Jenkins or any other CI/CD tool
• Valued experience with integration with other Dev
  Ops stack tools
• Industry experience with Software Platforms on Linux,
  - premises and cloud Server technologies
• Strong grasp of Dev
  Ops principles and best practices, with the ability to work across development and operations functions
• Hands-on experience in Observability practices, strategy and tooling
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes using tools like Jenkins, Git
  Hub Actions, Git
  Lab CI
• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain effective alerting and reporting dashboards
• Understanding of security principles, practices and standards and how they translate into
  - world technical solutions
• Able to work well within a multinational, multicultural environment
• Experience working with Agile delivery methodologies, especially SAFe, desirable
• Experience in complex international programmes: the role holder will need to be able to work laterally with technical (engineering and operations) and business functions (line of business, finance) within Vodafone
• Good understanding of information security
• Consultative,
  - focused design
  - set
• Strong presentation and communication skills, to technical, business and senior management audience
• Strong work planning and time management skills
• Willing to learn and a strong sense of ownership and autonomy

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What’s In It For You

• Hybrid Work Model - Flexible hybrid work model with 8-10
  - office days per month, managed by team leaders
• Vodafone Products and Services - Employees get a mobile phone, free communication plan, data card, and various discounts on services and products
• Recognition - Recognition programs for innovative, creative,
  - potential employees and exemplary behaviors
• Health and Well-being - Well-being Program offers nutrition and psychological consultations, webinars, workshops, and discounts on various services and products
• Learning - Access to Communities of Practice and a customizable digital training platform with
  - quality content (namely Harvard Business Publishing and Skillsoft)
• Local and International Mobility - Internal recruitment with local and international rotation opportunities across departments and roles

Who We Are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers. vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.