Senior Cloud Platform Architect (AWS, EKS, DevEx)

Mercedes-Benz.io; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work model

Open source software

No top-down hierarchy

Collaborative colleagues

Global brand

Health insurance and life insurance

International trainings and conferenсe

Brand Connection perks

Much more cool stuff

Job summary

Mercedes-Benz.io is seeking a System Architect to shape our internal platform strategy and elevate engineering teams with modern cloud-native solutions. You will drive architectural excellence across AWS-based platforms and internal services, helping teams adopt containerised and serverless workloads while improving observability and security compliance.

Join a flexible hybrid setup with Lisbon presence, collaborating across global teams to deliver scalable, reliable developer platforms and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience.
• 3+ years in technical leadership, solution architecture, or tech lead role.
• Hands-on with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architecture patterns.
• Experience with DevEx and internal developer platforms (IDPs) is a plus.
• Strong observability knowledge with monitoring, logging, and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture vision for cloud platforms and internal developer services running on AWS.
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of scalable, resilient platform solutions.
• Drive platform reliability initiatives, ensuring operational excellence through architecture reviews and standards.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve internal tooling and Developer Experience (DevEx).
• Guide the adoption and operation of containerised and serverless workloads (EKS, ECS, Lambda).
• Establish and improve observability standards including monitoring, logging, alerting, and SLIs/SLOs.

Skills

Leadership experience

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Agile delivery

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS Lambda

Datadog

Job description

Mercedes-Benz.io is seeking a System Architect to shape our internal platform strategy and elevate engineering teams with modern cloud-native solutions. You will drive architectural excellence across AWS-based platforms and internal services, helping teams adopt containerised and serverless workloads while improving observability and security compliance.

Join a flexible hybrid setup with Lisbon presence, collaborating across global teams to deliver scalable, reliable developer platforms and