Platform Engineer – SRE, Mid-Level

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Deploy and manage workloads on Kubernetes/EKS clusters.

• Implement best practices for operations, scalability utilizing Karpenter and Spot Instances, resilience, and monitoring.

• Create and enhance engineering automation, including a service catalog and templates.

• Minimize the duration between code completion and production deployment.

• Design and maintain reusable Terraform modules for AWS provisioning.

• Advocate for immutable, version-controlled infrastructure managed via a GitOps workflow.

• Advance the CI/CD pipeline with continuous delivery through ArgoCD.

• Conduct safe, reversible, and observable deployments.

• Develop automations, internal tools, and applications to reduce operational toil.

• Convert manual infrastructure requests into self-service capabilities for teams.

• Set up and uphold monitoring and observability stacks for applications and databases.

• Establish cloud security and governance guardrails.

• Address infrastructure incidents, contributing to mitigation, response, and root cause analysis.

• Translate incident insights into platform enhancements.

• Author and evaluate infrastructure code.

• Perform code reviews and engage in pair programming.

• Document architectural decisions and infrastructure usage patterns.

• Collaborate with product, development, and InfoSec teams to align solutions and deliverables.

⛳️ Requirements

• Practical experience in implementing and managing Kubernetes clusters, ideally EKS.

• Proficiency with Helm, scaling, ingress/ALB, resource management, and troubleshooting Kubernetes.

• Experience utilizing AI in the development of automations and internal applications to support operations.

• Comprehensive understanding of AWS cloud services, particularly compute, networking, storage, IAM, and databases.

• Proven experience in implementing AWS infrastructure with Terraform and evolving reusable modules.

• Familiarity with implementing and managing databases, preferably PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Elasticsearch.

• Background in creating and enhancing CI/CD pipelines and continuous delivery with ArgoCD within a GitOps framework.

• Capability to develop automations, scripts, and applications in Python, Go, and Bash.

• Strong practices in version control and testing.

• Product-oriented mindset focusing on infrastructure usability and documentation.

• Understanding of the Twelve-Factor App methodology and AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Knowledge of microservices and REST API architecture patterns.

• Ability to implement, define standards for, and utilize monitoring and observability services.

• Data- and metrics-driven approach to addressing performance and scalability challenges.

• Proactive in identifying infrastructure and database issues and proposing data-driven solutions.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with engineering teams.

• AWS certification is advantageous.

• Experience with infrastructure as a product/Platform Engineering is beneficial.

• Familiarity with Backstage or another Internal Developer Portal is a plus.

• Knowledge of cloud cost optimization strategies/FinOps is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Meal and food allowance.

• Wellhub/TotalPass.

• Home office allowance.

• Health insurance.

• Dental insurance (optional).

• Childcare assistance (until the child turns 6).

• Extended maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

• Life insurance.

• Birthday day off.

• Family Day.

• Mental Health Break (one consecutive week off in December).

• A sense of purpose from contributing to a team that is building something lasting and socially relevant.

• A relaxed, youthful, entrepreneurial, and meritocratic work culture.

• Opportunities for career development and growth.

• An open and inclusive work environment.

• All positions are accessible to individuals with disabilities.