Platform Engineer

Talent; Teletrabalho; BRL 478.000 - 692.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading fintech solutions provider is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and automate core infrastructure for a payments platform. This role demands expertise in AWS and Terraform, with responsibilities including designing scalable cloud components, supporting Kubernetes environments, and implementing observability. The position is not suited for junior candidates and emphasizes hands-on engineering rather than support roles. A strong background in event-driven architecture and a collaborative spirit are key requirements.

Qualificações

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• Design and implement scalable, resilient cloud platform components in AWS.
• Support EKS / Kubernetes environments and microservice deployment foundations.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing.

Conhecimentos

Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD

Monitoring

Ferramentas

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

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.