Nearshore Sector| AWS Platform Engineer

Are you an experienced Cloud Infrastructure professional who loves building rock-solid foundations, automating governance, and streamlining developer platforms? We are looking for a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to join our nearshore team in Portugal! In this role, you will design, build, and maintain enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure solutions. Working closely with cross-functional Agile squads, you will help unbreak and unify fragmented cloud landscapes, driving efficiency, security, and cost-effectiveness across a high-availability production estate. What you will do: Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design and implement secure, scalable AWS infrastructure solutions using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation (with an emphasis on building reusable enterprise modules). Cloud Governance & Security: Refactor organization-wide environments, standardizing multi-account landing zones, unified IAM models, and automated compliance guardrails aligned with CIS benchmarks. Advanced Networking: Standardize core cloud networking, including DNS management, traffic segmentation, routing patterns, and secure cross-cloud/intra-cloud connectivity. Container Orchestration: Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes/EKS, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and zero-trust network policies. CI/CD & Automation: Develop and optimize end-to-end deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) and create custom automation scripts using Python, Bash, or Go. Observability & SRE: Implement and maintain robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems (CloudWatch, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, ELK) to enhance operational readiness and reduce downtime What we are looking for: Required Skills and Experience: Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience working with core AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation). (Note: image image_76cc62.png mentions 3+ years, but the project requires a Mid-Senior to Principal engineering mindset). IaC Mastery: Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, specifically Terraform and Terragrunt. Containerization: Solid understanding of Docker and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes / AWS EKS). Automation & Scripting: Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go. Monitoring Systems: Experience implementing monitoring, tracing, and logging stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana). Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in an Agile/Scrum team environment, with strong communication skills to document architecture clearly. Preferred Skills (Big Plus): Experience working within Financial Services , banking, or highly regulated/audited environments (SOC2, compliance frameworks). Prior experience dealing with cloud cost optimization (FinOps), capacity planning, and resource lifecycle management. Familiarity with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Flux). The Vantage Compute Group works for equal opportunities, promoting its employees based on merit and actively fights against all forms of discrimination. We are convinced that diversity contributes to the creativity, dynamism and excellence of our organization. All of our vacancies are open to people with disabilities. At Vantage Compute , we believe that technology with strong human values can actively drive change for the better. Discover how Tech for People unlocks the future, creating a positive impact on the people and the world around us. We are a global leading player in Digital Transformation for leading organisations across EMEA, with a revenue of €652M. We believe in transforming technology to create value for our clients, partners and employees in a world where technology is developed for people. We are proud of the culture we have built together. We are proud of our people at the service of technology. We are proud of our diverse environment. Because we are #TechforPeople. Join our multidisciplinary team of Cloud experts, Designers, Business consultants, Security experts, Engineers, Developers and other extraordinary talents, spread across more than 18 EMEA countries. Become one of our +8.000 tech and business leaders on cloud, data and cyber security. Let’s fuse creativity with technology together and build innovative solutions that actively change things for the better. Originally posted on Himalayas