Platform Engineer

At Damia Group Portugal (Permanent), in Portugal

Salary: €70.000 - €90.000

Expires at: 2027-05-12

Remote policy: Full remote

The Platform Infrastructure team at our client plays a critical role in keeping the production and development environments running smoothly and securely. This role will utilize advanced cloud capabilities to facilitate the Platform Infrastructure strategy of market agility and lean operating principles with a strict focus on quality to meet the ever-growing demands of their clients.

As a Platform Engineer, you will be wearing multiple hats in a highly visible role, interacting with all aspects of the business.

Key responsibilities include:

Designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting distributed systems with strong hands-on debugging skills

Managing the relationship between the Platform Infrastructure team and the Information Security Team to address and resolve security issues related to the platform, CI/CD pipelines, and development tools

Contributing to security best practices by promoting a shift-left approach and fostering a strong security culture within the DevOps/Platform Infrastructure team

Developing and maintaining tools to support the development environment on macOS and Linux, with a focus on enhancing developer productivity

Maintaining site reliability with a focus on building highly scalable systems integrating resiliency and high availability at all levels

Developing software and tooling to secure and automate cloud infrastructure, building software delivery capabilities with fully automatic workflows

Designing and operating a Kubernetes environment for container management and orchestration

Working with distributed systems design, maintenance, and hands-on troubleshooting/debugging

Main requirements

8+ years of DevOps or SRE experience with at least 4 years of AWS experience

8+ years of CI/CD pipeline development in GitLab, GitHub, or similar framework

5+ years of experience with security best practices in AWS, including remediating SecurityHub findings

5+ years of experience with DevSecOps tools, including SAST tools, DAST tools, and SCA tools

Microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) experience in a production environment strongly desired

Strong Linux OS-level and command-line/scripting knowledge and configuration management principles

Working knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, and DynamoDB

Coding beyond simple scripting with strong opinions on maintainable/reusable code in Python, Ruby, or Java desired

Experience with compute provisioning on a cloud-based platform using Terraform and/or CloudFormation

Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision-making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions

Experience building a microservice-based architecture

Good written and spoken communication skills

Ability to design and implement complex but easily managed automated infrastructure

Enthusiastic about sharing knowledge, teaching, and learning collaboratively within a team environment

Experience in system tuning and performance testing

Nice to have

AWS certification