Platform Engineer (Porto)

Key Responsibilities

Platform Strategy & Governance

- Define, govern, and promote enterprise-wide Platform Engineering standards and best practices.

- Develop and maintain reference architectures, engineering guardrails, technical standards, and operating procedures.

- Establish reusable platform capabilities that can be adopted consistently across multiple product teams.

- Ensure alignment between platform strategy, enterprise architecture, security requirements, and business objectives.

- Participate in architecture discussions and technical reviews to design scalable, secure, and resilient application platforms.

- Define and monitor platform engineering KPIs, adoption metrics, DORA metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Internal Developer Platform

- Own and evolve the Internal Developer Platform strategy.

- Design self-service capabilities that allow engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate applications efficiently.

- Define and implement Golden Paths for common development and deployment scenarios.

- Build reusable templates, standardized workflows, shared platform services, and developer portals.

- Improve the developer experience by simplifying access to infrastructure, environments, deployment pipelines, and operational tooling.

- Identify friction points across the software delivery lifecycle and implement scalable engineering solutions.

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering

- Design, build, and maintain cloud-native application environments using AWS.

- Develop secure and scalable infrastructure patterns for development, testing, and production environments.

- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Infrastructure as Code.

- Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and platform issues across multiple environments.

- Monitor platform performance, reliability, capacity, scalability, and cost efficiency.

- Promote standardization and automation across cloud and infrastructure services.

Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Platforms

- Design, operate, and continuously improve Kubernetes-based platforms.

- Establish secure and scalable patterns for deploying cloud-native applications.

- Define standards for container lifecycle management, workload orchestration, networking, configuration, and security.

- Support engineering teams in adopting Kubernetes and cloud-native delivery models.

- Ensure platform resilience, availability, and operational readiness.

CI/CD & Software Delivery

- Define and govern enterprise CI/CD frameworks and deployment standards.

- Build and maintain reusable CI/CD templates and automated delivery workflows.

- Improve software delivery speed, reliability, traceability, and security.

- Integrate testing, security checks, compliance controls, and deployment automation into delivery pipelines.

- Support standardization across source control, build, release, and deployment processes.

- Identify and eliminate repetitive manual activities through automation.

Observability & Reliability

- Design and implement observability capabilities across platform services and application environments.

- Establish standards for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.

- Promote the adoption of Service Level Objectives, Service Level Agreements, and reliability engineering practices.

- Support incident management, root cause analysis, and operational improvement activities.

- Monitor platform health, performance, availability, capacity, and cost.

- Drive a culture of operational excellence and continuous learning.

DevSecOps & Compliance

- Embed security requirements throughout the software development and delivery lifecycle.

- Implement and promote DevSecOps practices across engineering teams.

- Support vulnerability management, secrets management, policy-as-code, and compliance automation.

- Strengthen software supply chain security across build and deployment processes.

- Ensure platform components and delivery pipelines comply with enterprise security standards.

- Collaborate with Security teams to define and enforce appropriate engineering guardrails.

Platform Adoption & Engineering Enablement

- Lead platform adoption initiatives across multiple product and development teams.

- Support teams in implementing enterprise standards, Golden Paths, and platform best practices.

- Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and enablement to engineering teams.

- Create and maintain clear platform documentation, onboarding materials, and operational procedures.

- Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration across Engineering, DevOps, Security, Architecture, and Operations.

- Collect developer feedback and use it to continuously improve platform capabilities and user experience.

✅ What We’re Looking For

Mandatory Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- At least 8 to 10 years of experience in one or more of the following areas:Platform Engineering

- Cloud Engineering

- Infrastructure Engineering

- DevOps

- Site Reliability Engineering

- Proven experience defining and governing enterprise-wide platform standards, engineering practices, and reference architectures.

- Strong experience working with AWS in large-scale enterprise environments.

- Advanced experience with GitLab, including CI/CD frameworks and software delivery automation.

- Strong experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based platforms.

- Proven experience building or operating Internal Developer Platforms.

- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment automation.

- Strong understanding of DevSecOps, observability, reliability, and cloud-native engineering practices.

- Experience supporting multiple product and development teams within complex enterprise environments.

- Full professional proficiency in English.

Technical Stack

Cloud & Infrastructure

- AWS

- Cloud-Native Architecture

- Infrastructure as Code

- Terraform

- Configuration Management

- Scalable Infrastructure Design

Containers & Orchestration

- Kubernetes

- Containerized Applications

- Cloud-Native Platforms

- Workload Orchestration

Internal Developer Platforms

- Backstage

- Crossplane

- Internal Developer Portals

- Platform Orchestration Frameworks

- Self-Service Infrastructure

- Golden Paths

- Reusable Templates

- Shared Platform Services

CI/CD & Version Control

- Git

- GitLab

- GitLab CI/CD

- GitHub

- Jenkins

- Deployment Automation

- Release Management

Observability & Reliability

- Prometheus

- Grafana

- OpenTelemetry

- Metrics, Logs, and Traces

- SLOs and SLAs

- Incident Management

- Operational Excellence

DevSecOps

- Vulnerability Management

- Secrets Management

- Software Supply Chain Security

- Policy-as-Code

- Compliance Automation

- Security Guardrails

Engineering Governance

- Platform Standards

- Reference Architectures

- Engineering KPIs

- DORA Metrics

- Developer Productivity

- Continuous Improvement