Lead SRE Engineer

About the Company:
Avenue Code is the leading software consultancy focused on delivering end-to-end development solutions for digital transformation across every vertical. We’re privately held, profitable, and have been on a solid growth trajectory since day one. We care deeply about our clients, our partners, and our people. We prefer the word ‘partner’ over ‘vendor’, and our investment in professional relationships is a reflection of that philosophy. We pride ourselves on our technical acumen, our collaborative problem-solving ability, and the warm professionalism of our teams.
Avenue Code has been believing in and promoting plurality actions for over 10 years, understanding that recognizing differences and fostering a safe environment, employment opportunities, representation, and support are the best ways to promote an increasingly equitable culture.
About the Role
We’re seeking an experienced
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
to join our growing team in Brazil. In this role, you’ll partner with product teams to tackle critical infrastructure challenges, acting as both a hands-on technical expert and a mentor.
You’ll help design, build, and operate cloud platforms while driving reliability, performance, and security across the engineering organization.
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Mentorship:
Guide and support engineers, foster technical excellence through code reviews and design discussions, and help unblock complex challenges.
Documentation & Standards:
Create and maintain runbooks, standards, and best-practice guides to strengthen operational capabilities.
Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD:
Automate provisioning and deployments using Terraform and best-practice pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).
Reliability Engineering:
Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build dashboards and alerts to proactively monitor system health.
Security & Compliance:
Enforce least-privilege IAM policies, automate vulnerability scans, and maintain audit logging.
Monitoring & Observability:
Instrument services with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing to enable rapid troubleshooting.
Cost Optimization:
Implement tagging strategies, right-size resources, and use data-driven insights to manage cloud spend effectively.
Must Have
Managing production-critical systems with deep knowledge of
SRE and DevOps principles
.
Proven experience mentoring engineers and leading technical projects.
Strong proficiency with
AWS
and cloud-native best practices.
Hands-on experience with
Kubernetes
(EKS or GKE) and large-scale container orchestration.
Expertise with
Terraform
for infrastructure provisioning.
Experience managing and debugging
Redis
and
Postgres
databases.
Solid understanding of
VPCs, VPNs, load balancers, and cloud networking
.
Proficiency with
Git
, branching strategies, and CI/CD integrations.
Strong grasp of
web and network protocols
( REST, TLS, DNS, etc.).
Nice to Have
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Experience breaking down large, ambiguous projects into actionable tasks.
Familiarity with
ArgoCD
,
GitHub Actions
,
Jenkins
, or similar CI/CD tools.
Working knowledge of
Python
,
Golang
, and
Helm
.
Experience running scalable
Node.js
microservices.
Knowledge of
cloud infrastructure security
and
Terragrunt
best practices.
Background in
production readiness
and
high-growth engineering environments
.
Avenue Code reinforces its commitment to privacy and to all the principles guaranteed by the most accurate global data protection laws, such as GDPR, LGPD, CCPA and CPRA. The Candidate data shared with Avenue Code will be kept confidential and will not be transmitted to disinterested third parties, nor will it be used for purposes other than the application for open positions. As a Consultancy company, Avenue Code may share your information with its clients and other Companies from the CompassUol Group to which Avenue Code’s consultants are allocated to perform its services.