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Our summary
- Salary
- €2,000 - €2,650 a month
- Work mode
- Hybrid, Lisbon
- Experience
- 3+ years



Skills
Nice to have
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Several years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE or a closely related role in a complex environment
- Strong practical experience with one major cloud provider, ideally AWS
- Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform and/or cloud-native tooling
- Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes, including deployment, networking, storage, security and operational troubleshooting
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, automated testing, artifact management and release practices
- Experience designing or operating observability, logging and monitoring solutions, and confidence troubleshooting distributed systems
- Good scripting or software engineering skills, preferably Python
- Solid knowledge of cloud security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, encryption, network controls and audit logging
- A product mindset: you listen to engineering teams, simplify their experience and balance standardisation with practical flexibility
- Languages: English, B2 (Upper Intermediate) minimum, with confidence working in distributed, cross-functional and international teams
Nice to have
- Exposure to Azure
- TypeScript, Java or similar languages
- Experience building an internal developer platform, service catalogue or self-service workflow
- Experience with large-scale migrations, hybrid-cloud or multi-country enterprise environments
- Knowledge of Azure AI, data platforms, event-driven architectures or API management
- Cloud, Kubernetes or security certifications
- Experience coaching engineers or contributing to engineering standards and communities of practice
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
Compensation: €2,000 - €2,650/month net, depending on experience and seniority level.
- 15th month salary
- Health insurance covering your family
- Birthday off
- Mobility program for digital nomads
- Real work-life balance
The role
Platform Engineer (AWS/Terraform/Kubernetes) - Hybrid Lisbon (1-2 days/week office)
What you'll do
You will design, build and evolve the internal developer platform for Java/Spring Boot services running across AWS, Azure and Kubernetes. Your work will include:
- Creating reusable deployment patterns, Helm charts and self-service templates for containerised applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Ansible and CloudFormation, covering environments, networking, identity, secrets, storage and runtime services
- Building and improving CI/CD with GitHub, Jenkins, Argo CD, Maven, Gradle, Nexus and Sonar
- Enabling API and integration delivery across Apigee, OpenAPI, REST, SOAP and gRPC, with OAuth2/OIDC, SAML, Azure AD and Azure AD B2C authentication patterns
- Supporting event-driven and data-integration solutions
- Providing shared observability: dashboards, alerting and tracing standards
- Embedding security and compliance into platform defaults (secrets, vulnerability management, certificates, secure delivery)
- Improving resilience, performance and operational readiness through runbooks, incident learning, capacity management and toil-reducing automation
- Tracking adoption, reliability and delivery outcomes, and evolving the platform based on feedback from engineering teams
How you'll work
Work model: Hybrid. The office is in Venda do Pinheiro (Mafra/Malveira area, Greater Lisbon). You'll start with 1-2 office days per week, which may later drop to 1-2 visits per month.
About HumanIT Digital Consulting
In their own words
About the company & team
Join the IT organisation of one of Europe's largest parcel and logistics networks. It handles hundreds of millions of parcels a year across more than 40 countries and 1,000+ locations. Behind every route, from parcel routing engines to mobile apps, there is a complex technology landscape. You'll help shape the platform that runs it. This is a Platform Engineer role in a fast-paced team that plays a central part in a large Microservices architecture rollout. You'll have real influence over how engineering teams build, ship and run software.
Additional information
Why HumanIT people stay (4.4 Glassdoor, 89% recommend)
Full benefits: https://www.humanit.pt/careers/#perks
What it's really like: https://www.humanit.pt/careers/#work-at
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