Platform Engineer | Senior

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to design, govern and evolve enterprise platform capabilities in the financial markets sector. This role focuses on AWS-based platforms, Internal Developer Platforms, CI/CD frameworks, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, observability and reusable engineering standards that improve productivity, consistency, security and time-to-market across multiple product teams.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Create and implement systems that optimise software development and infrastructure management.
• Define, govern and promote enterprise-wide platform engineering standards.
• Design and maintain CI/CD frameworks, reusable platform capabilities and engineering best practices.
• Own and evolve the Internal Developer Platform strategy.
• Design Golden Paths, engineering guardrails and self-service developer capabilities.
• Provide innovative solutions to improve standardisation, productivity, efficiency and time-to-market.
• Develop and maintain platform engineering documentation, standards, reference architectures and operational procedures.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues across development, test and production environments.
• Collaborate with development, operations, security and architecture teams to ensure smooth workflows and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical reviews for scalable, secure and resilient application platforms.
• Monitor and track performance, reliability, capacity and cost efficiency of environments and platform services.
• Debug and optimise code, automate tasks and eliminate repetitive manual activities through engineering solutions.
• Lead platform adoption initiatives and support engineering teams in applying platform standards and best practices.
• Contribute to continuous improvement using platform governance, engineering KPIs, DORA metrics and developer productivity insights.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• 8 to 10 years of experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps or site reliability engineering.
• Experience defining enterprise-wide platform standards, CI/CD frameworks and developer platform capabilities.
• Strong experience with AWS and GitLab in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Significant experience with version control, configuration management, software delivery and deployment automation.
• Proven experience defining and governing platform engineering standards, best practices and reference architectures across multiple product and development teams.
• Strong experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based platforms and cloud-native application environments.
• Experience implementing observability stacks and reliability practices.
• Experience building and operating Internal Developer Platforms.
• Experience designing and operating Golden Paths, reusable templates, shared platform services and self-service developer capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps practices and compliance automation.
• Experience with platform governance, engineering KPIs, DORA metrics and continuous improvement frameworks.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Professional working proficiency in English.
• Ownership, autonomy, accountability and a collaborative mindset.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience influencing platform adoption across multiple product teams
• Experience with enterprise-wide developer productivity initiatives
• Awareness of ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 9001 or cybersecurity best practices

Work model: Hybrid, 3 days per week in Porto

Language: English, minimum B2 level

COMPENSATION TRANSPARENCY

Base salary range: EUR 18 000 - EUR 22 000 gross/year

Total compensation: up to EUR 35 000/year