Senior Resource Plane Platform Engineer — Remote (Portugal)

Intermedia; Coimbra; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermedia in Portugal is seeking a Senior Resource Plane Platform Engineer to build, operate, and evolve the Resource Plane of our Internal Developer Platform. This senior role is a small, high-impact contributor position responsible for shared, non-database runtime services.

You will own the design and operation of shared Resource Plane services, manage Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch in production, and apply SRE principles to ensure availability, scalability, and safe upgrades.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology.
• Senior-level experience operating production-grade, stateful distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Experience with Linux, networking, and storage fundamentals.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and GitOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own design, implementation, and operation of shared Resource Plane services.
• Operate and evolve Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch 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.

Skills

SRE fundamentals

Ownership mindset

On-prem infrastructure

Linux fundamentals

Terraform

GitOps

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Elasticsearch

Job description

Intermedia in Portugal is seeking a Senior Resource Plane Platform Engineer to build, operate, and evolve the Resource Plane of our Internal Developer Platform. This senior role is a small, high-impact contributor position responsible for shared, non-database runtime services.

You will own the design and operation of shared Resource Plane services, manage Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch in production, and apply SRE principles to ensure availability, scalability, and safe upgrades.