Platform Engineer

Talent; Nova Lima; Teletrabalho; BRL 478.000 - 692.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A fintech payment solutions provider is seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to design and build a robust cloud infrastructure for high-scale financial transactions. This role focuses on utilizing AWS and Terraform in a hands-on capacity, working collaboratively with technical teams to ensure secure and resilient service delivery. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience, strong AWS and Terraform skills, and a passion for cloud-native solutions. Competitive compensation offered with remote working flexibility.

Qualificações

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong experience with AWS, covering security and core services.
• Excellent Terraform skills for modular and production-grade IaC.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms.
• Experience with Kafka or other event-streaming technologies.

Responsabilidades

• Design and implement scalable cloud platform components in AWS.
• Own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Build secure multi-account AWS environments.
• Develop internal platform tooling and automation.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing.

Conhecimentos

Platform Engineering

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes/EKS

Kafka

CI/CD

Monitoring

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.