Platform Engineer

Talent; Cabo de Santo Agostinho; Teletrabalho; BRL 120.000 - 160.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A fintech payments platform is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and build core infrastructure for high-scale financial transactions. This remote role requires at least 5 years of experience in Platform Engineering, strong AWS and Terraform skills, and the ability to work autonomously in a cloud-native environment. You will be responsible for building scalable cloud components and implementing infrastructure as code while collaborating with development teams. This position is centered around architecture and automation rather than traditional DevOps roles.

Qualificações

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering or related fields.
• Strong expertise with AWS including security and networking aspects.
• Proficient in Terraform for building production-grade IaC.

Responsabilidades

• Design and implement scalable cloud platform components in AWS.
• Own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Develop internal platform tooling and automation.
• Build Kafka-based event streaming capabilities.

Conhecimentos

Platform Engineering

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes / EKS

Kafka

CI / CD tooling

Monitoring and observability

Ferramentas

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Datadog

Grafana

ELK

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Platform Engineer (AWS / Terraform / Kafka) – Fintech Payments Platform

Location : Remote (UK / EU time zones)

Contract : 7 months (to April 2026)

Start : ASAP

Tech Stack : AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes / EKS, Kafka, GitOps, Cloud-Native Tooling

Focus : Platform engineering & solution build (not ops / DevOps)

About the Role

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to join a major UK retail group building a new Klarna-style fintech payments platform. This role sits at the heart of the cloud platform team and focuses on designing, building, and automating the core infrastructure that powers high-scale financial transactions.

You’ll work in a highly technical environment, collaborating with architects, backend engineers, and security teams to deliver secure, resilient, cloud-native foundations. This is a hands‑on build role — not day‑to‑day ops or DevOps support.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Build & Infrastructure Engineering

Design and implement scalable, resilient cloud platform components in AWS

Own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (modular, reusable architectures)

Build secure multi‑account AWS environments following Well‑Architected principles

Develop internal platform tooling, automation, templates, and golden paths

Support EKS / Kubernetes environments and microservice deployment foundations

Event-Driven & Distributed Architecture

Build and support Kafka‑based event streaming and messaging capabilities

Ensure high availability, reliability, and idempotent service patterns

Work with engineers to define infrastructure for distributed, real‑time systems

Observability, Reliability & Performance

Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing (Datadog / Grafana / ELK)

Ensure SLAs / SLOs for platform components are met

Contribute to disaster recovery design, multi‑region readiness, and resilience testing

Security, Governance & Compliance

Enforce best practices for IAM, secrets management, encryption, and network security

Build guardrails, policies, and automated compliance into CI / CD and IaC workflows

Contribute to platform risk assessments and mitigation strategies

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

Partner with architects, platform leads, and product teams to translate requirements into technical designs

Work with developers to guide best practices for cloud‑native builds

Mentor engineers in IaC, automation, and platform engineering patterns

Skills & Experience

Essential

5+ years in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering

Strong experience with AWS (multi‑account, networking, security, core services)

Excellent Terraform skills, building modular and production‑grade IaC

Solid understanding of Kubernetes / EKS or similar orchestration platforms

Experience with Kafka or other event‑streaming technologies

Hands‑on with CI / CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD)

Strong understanding of monitoring, distributed tracing, and observability

Ability to work autonomously in fast‑paced, cloud‑native engineering teams

Nice to Have

Experience in fintech, payments, or high‑throughput distributed systems

Knowledge of Well‑Architected Framework, security engineering, compliance

Familiarity with service mesh, API gateways, or serverless components

Exposure to Python / Go / TypeScript for automation or tooling

What This Role is Not

Not day‑to‑day ops or support

Not traditional DevOps or SRE maintenance

Not basic provisioning or infra monitoring

Not a junior cloud role

This is a platform build position : architecture + IaC + automation + infrastructure foundations.