Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Hybrid in Lisbon, Portugal, with a minimum of two days per week in the Lisbon office.

Company

hirify.global operates a curated marketplace where millions of special objects are bought and sold through weekly auctions.

What you will do

• Build and maintain a self-service developer platform that simplifies application deployment, monitoring, and optimization.
• Orchestrate cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters and cloud resources, with attention to scalability, performance, and FinOps.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, infrastructure automation, and reusable engineering templates.
• Improve reliability through fault tolerance, disaster recovery, scaling, and proactive incident prevention.
• Enhance platform operations and observability while monitoring platform health.
• Partner with product teams to understand their needs and promote cloud-native best practices.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Experience automating workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience maintaining observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong ownership, reliability, scalability, collaboration, and continuous-learning mindset.
• Ability to work from the Lisbon office at least two days per week.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with offices in Lisbon and Amsterdam.
• Health insurance from day one, including dental coverage.
• Meal allowance, work-from-home allowance, and commuting coverage.
• Learning and development programs, mentorship, and career development plans.
• Inclusive, diverse, and queer-friendly culture with colleagues representing more than 60 nationalities.
• Additional leave, Catavouchers, and an annual day off to pursue personal passions.

Hiring process

• Apply with an English CV and cover letter.