Remote Senior AWS Platform Engineer

Salve.Lab; Málaga; Remote; EUR 85,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Senior hands-on ownership

Modern tech stack

International team

Job summary

Salve.Lab is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to design and evolve production cloud platforms for scale. You’ll own AWS architecture, Kubernetes/EKS, IaC, and platform tooling, enabling engineering teams to deploy apps without deep infrastructure expertise.

Work is fully remote with international collaboration. You’ll build reusable components, automate provisioning, improve reliability, observability and cost efficiency, and mentor teammates in best practices.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience in cloud, platform, DevOps or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on production experience with AWS.
• Experience designing or operating Kubernetes/EKS.
• Strong experience with Terraform.
• Hands-on GitOps (ArgoCD or FluxCD).
• Strong CI/CD experience.
• Observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong Linux and networking knowledge.
• Proficiency in English (C1+).

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve production infrastructure on AWS.
• Architect and operate Kubernetes/EKS platforms supporting production workloads.
• Build reusable infrastructure using Terraform and IaC principles.
• Develop scalable cloud foundations including networking, IAM, compute, storage and managed AWS services.
• Build and improve GitOps delivery workflows using tools such as ArgoCD or FluxCD.
• Design and maintain CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar tooling.
• Create reusable platform components and automation that enable engineering teams to self-serve.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, security and performance.
• Implement observability across infrastructure and workloads using metrics, logs, traces and alerting.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking and applications.
• Contribute to incident response, root‑cause analysis, disaster recovery and production readiness.
• Identify opportunities for cloud cost optimisation and more efficient resource utilisation.
• Work directly with software engineers, architects and stakeholders on infrastructure and platform decisions.
• Contribute to architecture decisions rather than simply implementing predefined infrastructure tickets.
• Use Python, Bash or another scripting language to automate workflows.
• Help establish engineering standards and best practices across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and IaC.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Platform engineering

DevOps

Infra as Code

SRE practices

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

GitOps

ArgoCD

FluxCD

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Docker

Job description

Salve.Lab is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to design and evolve production cloud platforms for scale. You’ll own AWS architecture, Kubernetes/EKS, IaC, and platform tooling, enabling engineering teams to deploy apps without deep infrastructure expertise.

Work is fully remote with international collaboration. You’ll build reusable components, automate provisioning, improve reliability, observability and cost efficiency, and mentor teammates in best practices.