Senior Systems SRE

Aggregate function:  Technology
Business Area:  VT Channels
Posting Country:  Portugal
Date Posted:  20 Oct 2025
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

 As a Senior Security SRE at Vodafone, your leadership within Cloud Engineering will be pivotal to the successful delivery of our TaaS (Telco-as-a-Service) strategy. This strategy aims to bring our engineers together from across the globe to create a catalogue of reusable services and engineering capabilities. As a part of the Cloud Engineering team, your responsibility will be to coach and lead in provisioning, maintaining, and running the global cloud infrastructure that supports this catalogue, ensuring that it is highly-performant, self-serving and fault-tolerant.

Your deep technical knowledge will be what sets you apart and will enable you to shape the future of Vodafone’s global cloud infrastructure. Your fine-tuned experience of coding and algorithms will allow you to innovate effectively, lead the implementation of superior process automation and enable sustainable scalability. Your proven experience of IaC and CI/CD enforcements will also play a role in your delivery of innovation, as it will enable you to easily identify and consult on the need for change to improve reliability, velocity and ultimately drive optimal environmental stability.

If you are passionate about driving innovation and change across the globe in Vodafone’s Cloud Engineering team and leading the way in deploying, monitoring, and improving Vodafone’s global cloud infrastructure – then come on board! It is a really exciting time to be in the Vodafone Cloud Engineering team!

Who you are

  • You will have in-depth cloud development experience, knowing how to build, design and scale, high-performing cloud infrastructure systems via IaC
  • You will have experience driving platform engineering practises for Kubernetes workloads
  • You will use your deep knowledge and experience of observability tools and service level objectives to monitor cloud infrastructure performance, capacity, and availability
  • You will have proficient knowledge on scripting in any of the following programming languages: Python, Ruby, React, Node.js, JavaScript, Clojure, Java, Scala, Go or C#  
  • You will have the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • You will have a proactive and systematic attitude to problem-solving: looking to find areas of improvement and performance bottlenecks
  • You will have working knowledge of CI/CD implementation and agile DevOps methods 

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What's in it for you

  • You will be a key stakeholder within our Cloud Engineering Team.  Implementing, defining and implementing our and cloud strategy alongside your team.
  • You will mentor and coach junior and mid SRE’s and be directly involved in their technical growth.
  • You will be responsible for the quality of the end-to-end lifecycle of services: consulting on system designs right through to leading and implementing operation optimisation
  • You will work with your team to build, monitor, and troubleshoot our IaC CI/CD pipelines to ensure a smooth and uninterrupted deployment process
  • You will work with service providers to forecast long term capacity and performance requirements and enhancements
  • You will lead on sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
  • You will use your expertise of the latest services and capabilities to conduct talks to the wider Vodafone engineering community and the external engineering community
  • You will advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help evangelise great engineering and organisational practices

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.