Senior DevOps Engineer / Architect
Location: Remote (Brazil)
About Sphise Technologies
Sphise Technologies is a global outsourcing and talent solutions company, partnering with high-growth businesses to build strong, high-impact teams across finance, technology, and operations. Our trusted technology partner is scaling a modern cloud platform and is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer / Architect to lead infrastructure strategy and DevOps practices. As the platform continues to grow, this role will be instrumental in building scalable cloud infrastructure, strengthening CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring the platform remains secure, reliable, and cost-efficient.
Position Overview
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer or Architect who will take ownership of infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud operations. You will play a critical role in ensuring the platform is scalable, secure, and reliable while optimizing performance and cloud cost efficiency.
This position requires a hands-on technical leader who can collaborate closely with engineering, security, and product teams while mentoring developers on DevOps culture and tooling.
What You'll Do:
* Design, build, and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring reproducible and version-controlled environments.
* Own and manage Azure cloud infrastructure including networking, compute, storage, identity, and platform services.
* Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for applications built with .NET, PHP, Node.js, React, and Next.js.
* Implement best practices in pipeline automation, testing integration, artifact management, and deployment workflows.
* Strengthen platform security by implementing IAM best practices, secrets management, network segmentation, and encryption strategies.
* Integrate security scanning tools (SAST/DAST/SCA) and compliance checks into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
* Build and maintain observability using DataDog and SolarWinds, including monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerts.
* Define reliability standards including SLOs, SLIs, and incident response runbooks.
* Optimize cloud infrastructure costs through resource tagging, autoscaling strategies, reserved capacity planning, and cost monitoring dashboards.
* Collaborate with engineering teams to promote DevOps culture, automation, and self-service capabilities.
What You Bring:
* 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
* Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.
* Deep expertise with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
* Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
* Strong understanding of cloud security practices, including IAM, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning.
* Experience with Cloudflare services such as CDN, WAF, DNS, and Zero Trust.
* Strong Linux administration and scripting experience (Bash, Python, or PowerShell).
* Experience working with SQL Server in cloud environments.
* Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as DataDog or SolarWinds.
* Strong communication and documentation skills.
Nice to Have
* Experience with AWS infrastructure such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, EKS, or Lambda.
* Experience with Databricks or modern data platform infrastructure.
* Familiarity with policy-as-code frameworks such as OPA, Sentinel, or Azure Policy.
* Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or container security practices.
* Knowledge of FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization strategies.
* Experience implementing SRE methodologies such as SLOs and error budgets.
What We Offer:
* Competitive compensation package aligned with senior-level expertise.
* Fully remote work environment with flexible collaboration across global teams.
* The opportunity to shape and lead the DevOps architecture of a growing cloud platform.
* Work with modern cloud technologies and engineering best practices.
* A collaborative, engineering-focused culture with high ownership and impact.
* Opportunities for professional development, certifications, and technical growth.