Platform Engineer

Talent; Teletrabalho; BRL 120.000 - 160.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading tech recruitment agency seeks a Platform Engineer to help build a new Klarna-style fintech payments platform. The role, focusing on designing scalable AWS cloud components, requires over 5 years of Platform Engineering experience. Proficiency in Terraform and Kubernetes is essential. This remote position allows candidates from UK/EU time zones to apply. The successful candidate will work closely with engineers to ensure reliability and high availability of cloud services.

Qualificações

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong experience with AWS and Terraform.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes / EKS or similar orchestration platforms.

Responsabilidades

• Design and implement scalable cloud platform components in AWS.
• Own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Support EKS / Kubernetes environments.

Conhecimentos

Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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.

Overview

Location : Remote (UK / EU time zones)
Contract : 7 months (to April)
Start : ASAP
Tech Stack : AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes / EKS, Kafka, GitOps, Cloud‑Native Tooling
Focus : Platform engineering & solution build (not ops / DevOps)

Key Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Guidance: work with developers to guide best practices for cloud‑native builds
• Mentor engineers in IaC, automation, and platform engineering patterns

Skills & Experience

• 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

This Role Is Not

• Day‑to‑day ops or support
• Traditional DevOps or SRE maintenance
• Basic provisioning or infra monitoring
• A junior cloud role

What This Platform Build Position Involves

Architecture + IaC + automation + infrastructure foundations.