About the role

DevOps Engineer specializing in streamlining application deployment at Intermedia, a cloud communications provider in Portugal.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end release and deployment lifecycle: build → package → deploy → verify → rollback
Develop and support **Octopus Deploy** projects, lifecycles, channels, variables, and deployment processes
Implement deployment automation with **Ansible** (playbooks/roles, inventories, idempotent changes)
Maintain Git-based release workflows in **GitHub** (branching, tagging, versioning, release notes)
Build/maintain CI pipelines in GitHub Actions (or existing tooling) to produce artifacts and trigger Octopus releases
Standardize deployment patterns across applications (templates, shared steps, reusable Ansible roles)
Manage environment configuration and secrets in a controlled way (variable sets, permissions, auditing)
Improve deployment safety: approvals, health checks, smoke tests, automated validation, and rollback strategies
Support production releases, troubleshoot deployment failures, and drive root-cause analysis
Maintain release documentation, runbooks, and change management practices
Collaborate with developers, QA, and operations to plan releases and reduce downtime

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
Experience as **DevOps / Release / Deployment Engineer** supporting production deployments
Strong hands-on experience with **Octopus Deploy** (process design, variables, multi-environment releases)
Strong **Ansible** skills for deployment and configuration (roles, vault/secrets, troubleshooting)
Strong working knowledge of **GitHub** (PR workflows, tagging/releases, permissions)
Understanding of CI/CD concepts (artifact management, versioning, promotion between environments)
Administration and troubleshooting skills on **Windows and/or Linux** hosts used for deployments
Ability to diagnose deployment issues across app, OS, network, and configuration layers
****Nice to have**
Experience with Terraform and infrastructure provisioning
Scripting: PowerShell and/or Bash
Monitoring/observability basics (Prometheus/Grafana, logs) to validate releases
Experience with IIS/.NET deployments, Nginx, or reverse proxies (depending on stack)
Familiarity with container-based deployments (Docker/Kubernetes)
Experience in managing VOIP components and protocols (SIP , FreeSwitch, OpenSIP, session border controllers)
Experience with load balancing components ( F5 LTM, F5 GTM)
Experience with administering AWS or Azure tenants
Experience with Virtualization platforms such as VMWare or HyperV****

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