Senior DevOps Coach

Are you a seasoned DevOps leader who excels at bridging high-level platform strategy, hands-on automation, and engineering leadership? Ready to drive culture, tooling, and team growth across a top-tier European banking tech hub?

At act digital , we are recruiting a Senior DevOps Coach / Local Manager to join the Digital Infrastructure team for one of the major client in Lisbon. In this high-impact role, you will lead the DevOps transformation, elevate team maturity, and act as the local manager for an engineering team of 10+ people.

🌟 What you will do:

• DevOps Coaching & Culture: Coach development and operations teams to elevate their DevOps maturity, engineering practices, and autonomy through dedicated workshops, training sessions, and continuous improvement roadmaps.
• Local Leadership & People Management: Act as the local Lisbon manager for a multidisciplinary team of 10+ professionals, driving alignment, coordination, and day-to-day relay with Digital Infrastructure management.
• CI/CD & Platform Engineering: Support, evolve, and promote state-of-the-art CI/CD tooling, GitOps, and infrastructure automation standards across application squads.
• Architecture & Strategic Guidance: Collaborate closely with solutions, cloud, container platform, and architecture teams to evaluate technologies, define technical designs, and steer the long-term transformation roadmap.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Bridge the gap between application developers, IT operations, security, and external partners to eliminate delivery bottlenecks and support the adoption of automated pipelines.

🎯 What we are looking for:

• Seniority & Leadership: Proven track record as a Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Lead, Technical Referent, or Team Lead with strong coaching and people coordination skills.
• CI/CD & Tooling Mastery (Expert): In-depth expertise in modern delivery tooling — GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, XL Deploy, Nexus, SonarQube, and Ansible .
• Cloud & Containers: Solid hands-on knowledge of Azure Cloud services (and cloud operating models) along with Kubernetes and container platform ecosystems.
• Automation & Scripting: Strong scripting capabilities in Python for tooling, automation, and infrastructure engineering.
• Methodologies & Soft Skills: Deep familiarity with Agile/Scrum cross-functional delivery, DevSecOps principles, workshop facilitation, and a proactive mindset with high autonomy.
• Languages: English B2 minimum (mandatory). Portuguese or French is a valued plus.

💡 Nice to Have:

• Experience operating within financial services, wealth management, or highly regulated enterprise environments.
• Background as a formal Team Leader, Chapter Lead, or Local Manager.

💼 What we offer:

• The opportunity to combine technical influence with people management in an expanding hub.
• A collaborative environment within a certified Great Place to Work company.

📩 Ready to lead culture, platforms, and people? Apply now or send me a direct message to connect!

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