Platform Engineer - Microservices & Cloud Automation

Axians Portugal; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Axians Portugal is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build and optimize scalable platform solutions for a growing microservices architecture. You will deliver reliable, automated platform capabilities that enable development teams to build, deploy and operate applications effectively.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams across AWS, Azure and Kubernetes, implement IaC, CI/CD, and secure delivery patterns while driving observability, security and operational maturity.

Qualifications

• Several years of hands-on platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE in a complex environment.
• Strong experience with Terraform and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve the internal developer platform for Java/Spring Boot services running on AWS, Azure and Kubernetes.
• Create reusable deployment patterns, Helm charts and self-service templates for containerised apps.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Ansible and CloudFormation.
• Build and improve CI/CD with GitHub, Jenkins, Argo CD, Maven, Gradle, Nexus and Sonar.
• Enable API and integration delivery across Apigee, OpenAPI, REST, SOAP and gRPC, with OAuth2/OIDC/SAML.
• Support event-driven and data‑integration solutions.
• Provide shared observability capabilities with dashboards, alerts and tracing standards.
• Embed security and compliance into platform defaults for secrets and certificates.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience.
• Improve platform resilience and automation to reduce toil.
• Track adoption and reliability, evolving the platform with feedback.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

Cloud Engineering

SRE

Python

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Nexus

Job description

Axians Portugal is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build and optimize scalable platform solutions for a growing microservices architecture. You will deliver reliable, automated platform capabilities that enable development teams to build, deploy and operate applications effectively.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams across AWS, Azure and Kubernetes, implement IaC, CI/CD, and secure delivery patterns while driving observability, security and operational maturity.