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 RoleWe'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 (HTTP, 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.