Senior Platform Engineer — Build and Scale Shared Infra

Devopsroles; Coimbra; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermedia is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Internal Developer Platform (IDP) team and help build, operate, and evolve the Resource Plane of our services. You will own shared, stateful systems including event streaming, messaging, caching, object storage, and logging backends, shaping platform reliability and scale.

Role is primarily remote with occasional visits to the Coimbra office. You will collaborate with Kubernetes platform teams, drive IaC and GitOps, and contribute to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE/IT.
• Senior-level experience with production-grade stateful distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch.
• Experience running infrastructure primarily on-prem.
• Strong Linux, networking, and storage fundamentals.
• Deep Infra-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred).
• Experience with GitOps workflows and declarative infrastructure management.
• Solid grasp of reliability engineering concepts (SLOs, error budgets, alerting, capacity planning).
• Experience working with Kubernetes-adjacent platforms and services.
• Ability to operate independently in a small team environment.

Responsibilities

• Own design, implementation, and operation of shared Resource Plane services.
• Operate Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch platforms in production.
• Apply SRE principles to ensure availability, scalability, reliability, and safe upgrades of stateful systems.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps-based automation for provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Define and enforce supported usage patterns, guardrails, and golden paths for platform consumers.
• Integrate Resource Plane services into the Internal Developer Platform for self-service consumption.
• Participate in on-call rotation (initially may include 24x7 weekly rotation; target state is business-hours primary).
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements for owned services.
• Collaborate closely with Kubernetes Platform Team, IDP and other teams as required.
• Act as a senior technical voice in architecture discussions and platform roadmap planning.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Elasticsearch

Terraform

GitOps

Kubernetes

Job description

Intermedia is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Internal Developer Platform (IDP) team and help build, operate, and evolve the Resource Plane of our services. You will own shared, stateful systems including event streaming, messaging, caching, object storage, and logging backends, shaping platform reliability and scale.

Role is primarily remote with occasional visits to the Coimbra office. You will collaborate with Kubernetes platform teams, drive IaC and GitOps, and contribute to