Principal DevOps Engineer Lisboa

Principal DevOps Engineer
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Overview

Principal Dev
Ops Engineer role at Indie Campers – join to apply.

About Us Indie Campers is the leading campervan provider, dedicated to making road trips accessible and unforgettable for everyone. Innovation,
- led growth, and an unwavering commitment to our customers are at the heart of everything we do. With more than one million nights rented and travellers from 169 countries, we provide a single and trustworthy digital experience for road trips in the United States, Europe and Oceania, with different campervan configuration options and even the chance to buy one of our vehicles.

Our ambitions are big, and so are the challenges we embrace. We are scaling our technology organisation to unlock the next wave of
- and AI-powered experiences that will delight customers and empower employees worldwide.

The Role

As Principal Dev
Ops Engineer, you’ll be the technical lead for our platform reliability and developer experience. You’ll own the north star for CI/CD, runtime, observability, cost efficiency, and incident response across all products, mentoring Dev
Ops/SREs and partnering with Security and Product Engineering.

What You Will Work On

• Define and evolve platform architecture (Kubernetes/ECS, Ia
  C, networking, secrets, service mesh).
• Lead CI/CD strategy (multi-env, progressive delivery, canary/feature flags).
• Lead the Dev
  Sec
  Ops discipline by ensuring solid infrastructure security with automatic controls.
• Own observability (metrics/logs/traces), SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and
  - call excellence.
• Drive cost governance and performance tuning across AWS/GCP.
• Raise developer experience (golden paths, reusable modules, scaffolds,
  - source).
• Coach engineers; lead incident reviews and reliability roadmaps.

Who We Are Looking For

• 8–12+ years in Dev
  Ops/SRE; staff/principal scope.
• Deep AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/containers, Terraform, Linux, networking.
• Proven CI/CD design (Git
  Hub Actions/Git
  Lab), artifacts, environments.
• Observability expertise (Prometheus/Grafana, Open
  Telemetry, Sentry); incident leadership.
• Security hygiene (least privilege, secrets, SBOMs, supply chain).
• Excellent communicator, mentor, and
  - org influencer.

Core Values and Operating Principles

• Customer First: Relentless in providing the best service at the best price to all customers.
• Ownership: Proactively take ownership and deliver on our goals.
• Committed: Work together, as a team, for the
  - term.
• Learn, build and structure.
• Be precise and go deep.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Travel Arrangements

Are you ready to Go Indie?