Senior Resource Plane Platform Engineer (DevOps)

TL;DR

Senior Resource Plane Platform Engineer (DevOps): Building, operating, and evolving the Resource Plane of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with an accent on shared non-database runtime services. Focus on managing stateful systems like Kafka, Redis, and Elasticsearch, and applying SRE principles to ensure scalability and reliability.

Location: Must be located in Portugal. Hybrid work with offices in Coimbra, Aveiro, and Porto.

Company

Leading provider of cloud communications and collaboration technology.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and operate shared Resource Plane services used across the organization.
• Operate and evolve Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch platforms in production.
• Apply SRE principles to ensure availability, scalability, and safe upgrades of stateful systems.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps-based automation for provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Integrate Resource Plane services into the Internal Developer Platform for self-service consumption.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and participate in architecture discussions and roadmap planning.

Requirements

• Must be based in Portugal.
• Senior-level experience operating production-grade, stateful distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Proven experience running infrastructure primarily in on-prem environments.
• Deep experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred).
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, storage fundamentals, and SRE concepts (SLOs, alerting).

Nice to have

• Experience designing shared platform services consumed by multiple product teams.
• Familiarity with IDP concepts and developer self-service platforms.
• Experience migrating on-prem workloads toward cloud-native or hybrid models.
• Prior experience in staff- or principal-level technical leadership roles.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture built on teamwork, transparency, and mutual accountability.
• Hybrid working style providing flexibility to work remotely and collaborate in-office.
• Fast-paced environment with a strong internal promotion culture.
• Proven stability with many long-tenured employees (10-20+ years).

Hiring process

• Application and initial review.
• Review stage.
• Hiring decision.