Platform Engineer

Talent; Teletrabalho; BRL 515.000 - 664.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading fintech firm is seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to join their team focused on building a new payments platform. This hands-on role involves designing and implementing scalable components in AWS and utilizing Terraform for Infrastructure as Code. Candidates must have strong experience with cloud platforms and a solid understanding of Kubernetes and Kafka, alongside mentorship responsibilities and collaboration with technical teams. The position is not focused on day-to-day operations or junior tasks.

Qualificações

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong experience with AWS and Terraform.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes / EKS.
• Experience with Kafka or similar streaming technologies.
• Hands-on with CI/CD tooling and monitoring solutions.

Responsabilidades

• Design and implement scalable cloud platform components.
• Own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Support EKS/Kubernetes environments.
• Build and support Kafka-based event streaming capabilities.
• Implement monitoring and ensure SLAs/SLOs are met.

Conhecimentos

Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes/EKS

Kafka

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring

Observability

Ferramentas

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

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.