Senior AI & Cloud Platform Engineer

Confidential Careers; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Careers in Lisbon is seeking a hands-on cloud operations engineer to build scalable cloud environments, automate CI/CD pipelines, and optimize runtimes in a live, high‑complexity setting. You will establish patterns that developers rely on daily, implement observability across logs, metrics and traces, and define reliability standards including SLOs and incident processes.

This role suits someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, values automation, and collaborates with

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud-native operations, especially with Azure.
• Ability to design automated environments and pipelines at scale.
• Strong grasp of observability, telemetry and reliability engineering.
• Proactive in troubleshooting distributed systems and guiding teams toward resilience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud environments using infrastructure as code and reusable modules.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines with automated validation, safety controls and progressive rollout patterns.
• Implement observability across logs, metrics and traces with actionable signal for teams.
• Define and maintain reliability standards including SLOs, error budgets and incident processes.
• Establish secure defaults for environments, services and deployments.
• Optimize runtime performance and cost through data-driven analysis.
• Remove manual operations by automating environment, deployment and maintenance workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering, data and security teams to ensure platform readiness.

Skills

Cloud-native operations

CI/CD pipelines

Observability & reliability

Troubleshooting distributed systems

Automation mindset

Tools

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Telemetry tooling

Job description

We are building a modern platform that blends workflow automation, data-driven insights, and AI-supported decision capabilities. This role shapes the operational backbone that makes all of it reliable, secure and fast. You will work on cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD automation, environment management, observability and runtime optimization in a live, high-complexity environment.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You build systems that scale, fail gracefully, and recover automatically. You establish patterns that developers rely on every day. You will operate in a fast-moving environment where stability and agility must coexist.

Why this role matters

The success of the platform depends on strong operational foundations. Users expect speed and stability. Internal teams rely on safe, repeatable systems. Automated agents require predictable, observable runtimes. You will help build the environment that powers all of it.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud environments using infrastructure as code and reusable modules
• Develop CI/CD pipelines with automated validation, safety controls and progressive rollout patterns
• Implement observability across logs, metrics and traces, with actionable signal for teams
• Define and maintain reliability standards including SLOs, error budgets and incident processes
• Establish secure defaults for environments, services and deployments
• Optimize runtime performance and cost through data-driven analysis
• Remove manual operations by automating environment, deployment and maintenance workflows
• Collaborate closely with engineering, data and security teams to ensure platform readiness

Requirements

• Background in cloud-native operations, preferably in Azure
• Experience building automated environments and pipelines at scale
• Solid understanding of observability, telemetry and reliability engineering
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems and guide teams toward resilient patterns
• A mindset focused on automation, repeatability and operational simplicity
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where infrastructure evolves quickly