Senior Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and sustain cloud-based infrastructure (AWS) to ensure scalability, reliability, and security.

• Manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or similar tools.

• Supervise container orchestration platforms including Kubernetes.

• Implement effective disaster recovery and high availability strategies.

• Construct, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines for swift and dependable deployments.

• Automate the provisioning of infrastructure, configuration management, and application deployments.

• Incorporate automated testing and security measures into delivery workflows.

• Deploy logging, alerting, and observability tools to monitor both infrastructure and application performance.

• Identify and proactively resolve performance bottlenecks, outages, or system health challenges.

• Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot and rectify deployment issues.

• Ensure that infrastructure and delivery processes comply with security, governance, and compliance standards.

• Apply security updates and patches to infrastructure and platform components.

• Work alongside software engineers to ensure development adheres to operational best practices.

• Lead technical decision-making for infrastructure and platform projects.

• Mentor junior engineers and advocate for DevOps best practices throughout the teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in senior Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering positions.

• Strong proficiency with the AWS cloud platform.

• Extensive knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.

• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform).

• Experience in constructing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions or similar tools).

• Robust understanding of observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).

• Solid knowledge of networking, system administration, and cloud security practices.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex issues.

• Strong communication and collaborative skills.

• Experience leading projects and influencing engineering decisions.

• Nice to Have:

• Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

• Programming skills in TypeScript, Python, or Go.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours

• Remote work opportunities

• 28 days of vacation annually

• A competitive compensation package

• An excellent technological and work setup with all necessary resources