Platform Engineer

About Damia Damia is a specialist tech recruitment agency in Portugal, focused on technology, product, and engineering roles. We work with funded scaleups, international companies building teams in Portugal, and established tech organisations scaling critical hires. Our approach is consultative, not transactional. Every mandate runs through a structured methodology, from strategic discovery and talent mapping to curated shortlists and post-hire follow-up, led by senior recruiters who understand the market and the roles they recruit for. We are part of the Triveris Group ecosystem alongside We Are META and Landing.Jobs, giving us reach across the full spectrum of tech talent in Portugal. Damia supports its clients with direct hires. 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 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