Senior Platform Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to take technical ownership of our software development platform and CI/CD ecosystem, ensuring development teams can deliver secure, reliable, and high-quality software efficiently. The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on DevOps expertise with a strong sense of ownership, and is passionate about developer experience, automation, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Own the CI/CD ecosystem: shared GitLab CI/CD templates, builder images, the corporate Maven parent POM, and pipelines for multiple technology stacks.

• Administer and evolve the DevOps toolchain, including GitLab, CI runners and build agents, artifact repositories, code quality, and observability tools.

• Operate Jira and Confluence on Amazon EKS.

• Integrate security and quality into CI/CD, including Software Composition Analysis and SBOMs, vulnerability management, secrets detection, and quality gates.

• Act as the first point of contact for development teams on platform requests and troubleshooting.

• Maintain the engineering metrics platform and its dashboards.

• Ensure platform reliability and continuity: backups, disaster recovery, restore tests, maintenance, incident management, and root cause analysis.

• Deliver training, documentation, and regular reports, mentor other engineers, and work with technology vendors.

Key Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and software development platforms, preferably GitLab CI/CD.

• Expert knowledge of Git, Linux (RHEL or Rocky Linux), and scripting in Bash and Python.

• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible.

• Containers and orchestration (Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes).

• Java build ecosystem with Maven (POMs, plugins, and releases).

• Relational databases (PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS) and SQL, including ETL and dashboards.

• Proficient day-to-day use of AI coding assistants.

• DevSecOps, software supply chain security (Software Composition Analysis and SBOM), and vulnerability management, including authentication and secrets management.

• Working knowledge of AWS.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.

• Native-level Portuguese and professional English (written and spoken).

Nice to Have

• Artifact, code quality, and Software Composition Analysis tools, such as Nexus Repository, SonarQube, or Dependency-Track.

• Amazon EKS and Helm.

• Identity and access tools, such as Okta (SAML SSO) or Teleport.

• Observability tools, such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Loki.

• Virtualization platforms, such as Proxmox or another hypervisor.

• Networking (DNS, TLS/PKI, reverse proxies, WAF, and VPN) and developing internal tools.

• Relevant certifications (Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, GitLab, RHCSA, or ITIL 4)