Cloud Data Platform Engineer: Real-Time, DevOps & Cloud

act digital EMEA - Alter Solutions; Portugal; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

act digital EMEA - Alter Solutions seeks an experienced Data Platform Engineer to join an international project focused on building, operating, and modernising cloud-native data platforms. The role combines database administration with hands-on DevOps, cloud infrastructure, automation, and real-time data processing.

The ideal candidate will design and deploy scalable data platforms, manage production databases, and work with streaming tech (Kafka, Flink) while advancing CI/CD and GitOps

Qualifications

• Production database experience (PostgreSQL, MongoDB or similar).
• Strong SQL knowledge, performance tuning, replication, backup and recovery.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, highly available data platforms.
• Manage production databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Valkey) including performance, replication, backup, and recovery.
• Work with real-time data streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, and CDC solutions.

Skills

Database administration

DevOps

CI/CD

IaC

Real‑time data processing

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Valkey

Kafka

Flink

CDC solutions

Terraform

Terragrunt

Ansible

Python

Bash

Kubernetes

Azure

GitLab CI/CD

Argo CD

Job description

act digital EMEA - Alter Solutions seeks an experienced Data Platform Engineer to join an international project focused on building, operating, and modernising cloud-native data platforms. The role combines database administration with hands-on DevOps, cloud infrastructure, automation, and real-time data processing.

The ideal candidate will design and deploy scalable data platforms, manage production databases, and work with streaming tech (Kafka, Flink) while advancing CI/CD and GitOps