DevOps Engineer

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From its beginnings as a wool mill, La Redoute is a French brand that has forged unique relationships with its customers for the past 180 years – yesterday through its catalogue, today on the web. We are a mainly digital player, selling fashion as well as home decoration.  

Associated with the Galeries Lafayette group and present in Portugal, in Leiria, La Redoute is looking for a DevOps Engineer.

About the Position

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our infrastructure evolution, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud platforms that enable our teams to innovate faster and deploy with confidence. This role spans cloud infrastructure management, Infrastructure as Code development, and identity management systems - all underpinned by a philosophy of automation and best practices.

Your primary focus will be on optimizing and managing our Azure environments while developing and maintaining robust infrastructure as code. You'll work across multiple dimensions of our platform - from Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads to cloud services to security and compliance - ensuring everything runs reliably, efficiently, and securely.

Beyond the technical aspects, you'll advance DevOps culture, helping developers adopt cloud-native practices, sharing knowledge openly, and fostering an environment where everyone understands the value of good infrastructure. You'll take pride in reducing operational friction, automating repetitive tasks, and helping your colleagues succeed.

What we're looking for

Technical Expertise: You bring solid, hands-on experience with Azure cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, and modern DevOps practices. You understand containerization, cloud architecture, and how to build systems that are both efficient and maintainable.

Ownership Mindset: You believe that good infrastructure is a service to your team. You take ownership of problems, see the bigger picture, and aren't satisfied until things are not just working, but sustainable and well-understood.

Continuous Improvement Mentality: You're driven by the desire to make things better - whether that's reducing deployment time, improving observability, or automating manual processes. You learn from incidents and help others do the same.

Collaborative Spirit: You recognize that DevOps is not a solo role. You work effectively with architects, security engineers, database specialists, developers, and other stakeholders. You communicate clearly, listen actively, and see diverse perspectives as a strength.

Pragmatic Problem-Solving: You balance perfectionism with practicality. You can troubleshoot complex issues, think critically about solutions, and make sound decisions even with incomplete information.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure on Azure
• Develop and evolve Infrastructure as Code to ensure repeatable, version-controlled deployments
• Continuously optimize cloud platform capabilities for cost efficiency and performance

Observability & Reliability

• Establish and maintain comprehensive observability across our Azure environments (monitoring, logging, tracing)
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and reliability risks, working to prevent issues before they impact users
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve complex incidents with a focus on root cause analysis and prevention

Kubernetes & Container Management

• Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads on Azure
• Optimize container orchestration, scaling, and resource management for reliability and efficiency
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues within containerized environments

Automation & CI/CD

• Advance automation across infrastructure provisioning, testing, and deployment pipelines
• Implement and optimize CI/CD practices to streamline the software development lifecycle
• Build tools and processes that empower developers to self-serve and deploy with confidence

Knowledge Sharing & Enablement

• Guide developers and teams toward cloud-native and containerized practices
• Document infrastructure decisions, runbooks, and best practices to ensure knowledge is accessible
• Mentor colleagues and foster a culture of continuous learning

Security & Compliance

• Integrate security best practices into all infrastructure and deployment processes
• Collaborate with security teams to maintain compliance and build secure systems by design
• Conduct code reviews and implement mechanisms to continuously improve quality and security

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven hands-on experience with Azure in production environments
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code practices and tools
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment strategies
• Familiarity with containerization and Kubernetes orchestration
• Proficiency with code repositories and version control (Git-based workflows)
• Solid understanding of observability best practices and implementation
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities
• Ability to work independently while actively collaborating in cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and listening) across all levels
• Fluency in English (mandatory)

Preferred Skills & Certifications

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms and tools (GitLab, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of observability stacks (monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, alerting)
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and working in agile teams, understanding how DevOps practices improve team efficiency and delivery velocity
• Experience with security frameworks and cloud security best practices
• Relevant cloud certifications
• Experience with public cloud platforms beyond Azure

Good reasons to join us:  

• Integration in a team of more than 100 IT members 
• International company  
• Hybrid work model  
• Real sense of community/close-knit office  

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