Senior Platform Engineer: IaC, Kubernetes & AWS Expert

Decskill; Lisboa; In loco; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Decskill is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to lead platform upgrades, IaC migrations and high-availability improvements on AWS with EKS. You will manage OpenTofu and Terraform module migrations, implement self-healing and autoscaling, and optimize costs while ensuring secure access and compliance across pipelines.

The role requires 5+ years in DevOps/SRE or Platform Engineering, strong Kubernetes expertise, and fluency in Portuguese and English.

Competenze

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineering.
• 3+ years running IaC on AWS in production.
• Hands-on with Terraform and OpenTofu including reusable modules and state management.
• Experience with EKS and Kubernetes lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of AWS resources (EC2, S3, IAM).
• Experience delivering production infrastructure migrations/upgrades with backup and rollback.
• Kubernetes skills: Helm, ingress, probes, HPA, PDBs.
• GitLab CI/CD, merge requests and pipelines.
• Vault for secrets management and IAM/RBAC, TLS fundamentals.
• Bash scripting and Linux administration.
• Familiar with Jira, Confluence and VSCode.
• Senior profile with autonomy and teamwork.
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools in IaC development.

Mansioni

• Plan and run platform-component upgrades with backups and validated rollbacks.
• Migrate Terraform to OpenTofu modules; separate provisioning configs.
• Upgrade OpenTofu, Terraform and AWS provider with safe state handling.
• Deliver versioned IaC updates across platform components.
• Design high-availability and resilience improvements with platform owners.
• Maintain platform backups and recovery tests; ensure rapid recovery.
• Define availability actions for critical services and validate health.
• Improve monitoring and implement self-healing and autoscaling.
• Optimize EKS and AWS cost; rightsize and scheduled scaling.
• Maintain reusable OpenTofu/Terraform modules and Ansible automation.
• Work through GitLab MR workflows; integrate Vault secrets and least privilege.
• Remediate Checkmarx findings in IaC; verify fixes.

Conoscenze

DevOps

SRE

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS

Kubernetes

EKS

IaC

Bash

Linux

Jira

Confluence

GitLab CI/CD

Vault

TLS

Portuguese

English

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Strumenti

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS

Kubernetes

Helm

GitLab

Vault

Jira

Confluence

VSCode

Descrizione del lavoro

Decskill is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to lead platform upgrades, IaC migrations and high-availability improvements on AWS with EKS. You will manage OpenTofu and Terraform module migrations, implement self-healing and autoscaling, and optimize costs while ensuring secure access and compliance across pipelines.

The role requires 5+ years in DevOps/SRE or Platform Engineering, strong Kubernetes expertise, and fluency in Portuguese and English.