Platform Engineer

ALTEN; Ovar; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

ALTEN in Portugal is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join our team in the Aveiro region. You will contribute to building scalable CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native environments.

With 3+ years in platform engineering, you will collaborate across squads to improve automation, security, and reliability while helping others grow their skills. We value hands-on leadership and a proactive approach to modernizing legacy workloads into cloud-ready solutions, ensuring robust reliability and

Qualifications

• 5+ years operating CI/CD and Kubernetes in production.
• Deep expertise with Terraform and policy-as-code automation.
• Strong background in identity, networking, hardening, and secrets management.
• Proven experience leading on-prem to cloud migrations with tested rollback paths.
• Observability expertise across logs, metrics, traces, and creating actionable runbooks.
• Clear communicator and strong coach with the ability to empower engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the IDP and CI/CD stack across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Provide golden paths and self-service templates for infrastructure-as-code pipelines and environments.
• Automate provisioning and policy as code using Terraform and GitHub/Azure DevOps.
• Embed security by default including IAM, secrets, scanning, SBOM, signed artifacts, and secure supply chain practices.
• Establish observability and SRE practices and lead incident response aligned with SLOs.
• Modernize legacy workloads to cloud-native environments through planned migrations and controlled cutovers.

Skills

Platform engineering

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Terraform

Automation

Git automation

Security in pipelines

Observability

Mentoring / coaching

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

AWS

GCP

Job description

At ALTEN, we are certain that the success of our projects is driven by the people who make up our team. That’s why, if you have at least 3 years of experience as a Platform Engineer, we are committed to boosting your talent, meeting your professional expectations, and making you feel right at home.

Key accountabilities:

• Build and operate the IDP and CI/CD stack across cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Provide golden paths and self‑service templates for infrastructure-as-code pipelines and environments.
• Automate provisioning and policy as code using Terraform and GitHub/Azure DevOps.
• Embed security by default including IAM, secrets, scanning, SBOM, signed artifacts, and secure supply chain practices.
• Establish observability and SRE practices and lead incident response aligned with SLOs.
• Modernize legacy workloads to cloud‑native environments through planned migrations and controlled cutovers.

Requirements:

• 5+ years operating CI/CD and Kubernetes in production on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Deep expertise with Terraform and Git‑based automation with a policy-as-code mindset.
• Strong background in identity, networking, hardening, and secrets management.
• Proven experience leading on‑prem to cloud migrations with tested rollback paths.
• Observability expertise across logs, metrics, traces, and creating actionable runbooks.
• Clear communicator and strong coach with the ability to empower engineering teams.

Who are we?

We are a team. We are part of ALTEN, a European multinational specializing in consulting, information technology, and engineering services to the leading companies in the Portuguese market. If you like numbers, we can tell you that in Portugal we have a revenue of 10.9 million euros, 2 headquarters, and a team of 215 professionals. Moreover, at ALTEN, we take pride in offering equal opportunities regardless of gender, age, abilities, or country of origin. Our commitment is to talent and to the people who possess it.