Senior Platform DevOps Lead - IDP & SaaS Platform

VBeyond Corporation; Porto; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

VBeyond Corporation in Porto is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to drive reliable, scalable platform infrastructure and shared services that underpin our SaaS products. You will operate at the intersection of architecture, operations, and engineering leadership, collaborating with product groups to shape how we build and maintain our platforms.

The role emphasizes defining enterprise-wide standards, CI/CD frameworks, and reusable capabilities; owning the IDP strategy and Golden Paths; and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• At least 8 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, or SRE.
• Strong experience with AWS and GitLab in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Significant experience with version control, configuration management, software delivery, and deployment automation (Git, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, Terraform).
• Proven experience defining and governing enterprise-wide platform engineering standards and reference architectures.
• Strong experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based platforms and cloud-native environments.
• Experience implementing observability stacks and reliability practices (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, SLOs/SLAs, incident management).
• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms using tools like Backstage, Crossplane, or similar frameworks.
• Experience designing Golden Paths, reusable templates, shared platform services, and self-service developer capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability management, secrets management, and software supply chain security.

Responsibilities

• Creation and implementation of systems that optimize software development and infrastructure management.
• Define, govern, and promote enterprise-wide platform standards, CI/CD frameworks, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Own and evolve the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) strategy, Golden Paths, and self-service capabilities.
• Provide innovative solutions to enable standardization and improved productivity across product teams.
• Develop and maintain platform engineering documentation, standards, reference architectures, and operational procedures.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues in development, test, and production environments.
• Collaborate with development, operations, security, and architecture teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical reviews to design scalable, secure platforms.
• Monitor performance, reliability, capacity, and cost efficiency of environments and platform services.
• Debug and optimize code, automate tasks, and eliminate repetitive manual activities.
• Lead platform adoption initiatives and support engineering teams in implementing standards and best practices.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud engineering

DevOps

SRE

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

GitLab

Git

GitHub

Jenkins

Terraform

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Backstage

Crossplane

Job description

VBeyond Corporation in Porto is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to drive reliable, scalable platform infrastructure and shared services that underpin our SaaS products. You will operate at the intersection of architecture, operations, and engineering leadership, collaborating with product groups to shape how we build and maintain our platforms.

The role emphasizes defining enterprise-wide standards, CI/CD frameworks, and reusable capabilities; owning the IDP strategy and Golden Paths; and