Head of DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure (Brazil)

About EnterpriseAlumni:

EnterpriseAlumni isn't your average software company. We're the market-leading provider of Corporate Alumni Management software, helping some of the world’s biggest brands stay connected with their alumni. Our platform is a powerhouse, driving recruiting efforts, sales opportunities, and brand advocates back into our clients' organizations whilst creating a strong alumni value proposition.

About the Role:

We're looking for a seasoned Head of DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure to lead our infrastructure strategy and team. This is a remote role requiring the candidate to be located in Brazil. You’ll spend roughly half your time on hands-on technical work and half on people leadership.

You'll own the reliability, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our cloud infrastructure, supporting a white-label platform that serves large enterprise clients in highly regulated industries. You'll work closely with the CTO and collaborate directly with our development teams to ensure infrastructure decisions enable our production reliability, availability, and velocity. You’ll also be involved in long term product and infrastructure strategy.

Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

Architect, build, and maintain scalable, secure, multi-regional cloud infrastructure on AWS

Own our Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, ensuring reproducibility and auditability

Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines across Jenkins and CircleCI, including iOS and Android build systems

Manage container orchestration via EC2/ECS/ECR and Kubernetes as well as ingress/routing through Traefik

Lead observability strategy using Grafana and Prometheus — ensuring comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and incident response capabilities

Drive high availability and disaster recovery planning across regions

Security & Compliance

Ensure infrastructure meets SOC 2, ISO 27001, and Cyber Essentials+ requirements

Implement and maintain robust security practices, including encryption at rest, in transit, and in use

Stay current on evolving compliance requirements for banking and professional services clients

Lead security audits and remediation efforts

Cost Management

Continuously monitor and optimize cloud spend, staying ahead of AWS pricing changes and leveraging reserved instances, savings plans, and right-sizing strategies

Establish cost visibility and accountability across teams

Present regular cost analyses and recommendations to leadership

People Leadership

Build, mentor, and lead the DevOps and infrastructure team

Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support career development

Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Manage vendor relationships and negotiate contracts where applicable

Cross-functional Collaboration

Partner closely with development teams to ensure infrastructure supports application needs

Communicate infrastructure strategy, risks, and trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders

Participate in incident response and establish on-call practices that balance reliability with team well-being

Requirements:

7+ years of experience designing and operating infrastructure on major cloud providers, with deep AWS expertise

Proven experience leading or managing infrastructure/DevOps teams

Hands-on experience with the AWS Security Stack, including Inspector, GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, WAF, and related security services

Strong hands-on skills with Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, CircleCI)

Experience supporting mobile build pipelines (iOS/Android)

Deep understanding of cloud security principles and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001)

Track record of infrastructure work in highly regulated industries such as banking or professional services

Sharp cost awareness, experience optimizing cloud spend and implementing FinOps practices

Strong application development understanding to collaborate effectively with developers

Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical concepts for executive and non-technical audiences

Comfortable with incident management, on-call responsibilities, and leading teams through outages

Fluent in English (written and verbal)

Nice to Have

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, Security Specialty)

Experience with Traefik as an ingress controller

Familiarity with GCP or Azure as secondary cloud providers

Experience scaling infrastructure for multi-tenant SaaS platforms

Background in or exposure to application development

Why Join Us?

At EnterpriseAlumni we work hard, play hard, and always have each other's backs. We offer a fast-paced, innovative, and inclusive environment where creativity is our currency, and every success is celebrated. If you're passionate about a career in technology and ready to make a real impact, we would love to hear from you.

At the heart of our company is EA DNA - the essence that connects our six core values and shapes how we work every day. It guides every decision, behaviour and interaction, and defies the way we do business. When you join us, you become part of a team that truly lives these values: People First, Customer at Our Core, Think Commercially, One Team, Own It, and Urgency. These pronciples shape your experience here - how we support you, how we work together, and how we deliver for our customers.

If you're passionate about a career in technology and ready to make a real impact, we would love to hear from you.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume, in English,  and a brief cover letter explaining why they are the perfect fit for this role.

EnterpriseAlumni is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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