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Kevel

Senior Platform Engineer

platform engineeringGCPAWSCI/CDinfrastructure as codecontainer orchestrationDatadogdeveloper toolingproduction systemsincident response

Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Mid-level

Years experience

3-5

Location

Porto, Portugal; Remote, Portugal

Full job description

Kevel is hiring a Platform Engineer to build and operate infrastructure, tooling, and services supporting engineering teams. The role involves building self-service platform capabilities, improving developer tooling and CI/CD pipelines, defining reliability targets, solving security and operational issues, automating manual tasks, operating production infrastructure, leading incident responses, and providing internal support. Candidates must have strong software engineering experience, at least 3 years running production workloads in GCP (AWS a plus), experience with container orchestration, Datadog or similar monitoring, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines. The position is full-time, hybrid or remote within Portugal, with a salary range of €60,000 to €68,000 annually. Benefits include flexible work hours, fully remote options, comprehensive health insurance, retirement savings, unlimited PTO, parental leave support, home office stipend, and an annual company retreat.

What you'll do

  • Build and evolve self-service platform capabilities for product teams
  • Own and improve developer tooling, CI/CD, and golden paths for engineers
  • Work with engineering teams to define reliability targets, solve security and reliability issues, and improve observability
  • Embed in engineering teams to solve acute operational issues
  • Evaluate services for production readiness
  • Automate time-consuming manual tasks
  • Operate production infrastructure
  • Lead incident responses and ensure full resolution
  • Lead by example to improve platform and reliability practices
  • Administer shared vendored products and provide internal support
  • Participate in on-call rotations for out-of-hours support

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering experience
  • Experience operating production systems at scale
  • Experience building internal developer platforms or developer tooling
  • At least 3 years of hands-on experience running production workloads in GCP (AWS experience a plus)
  • Container orchestration
  • Datadog (or similar logging/monitoring platform)
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong written English

Tech stack

GCPAWSContainer orchestrationDatadogInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD pipelines

Benefits

Fully remote team with flexible work locations including home, office, or coworking spacesFlexible working hours100% employer paid health insurance for employee and family through CoverflexAdditional 5% Coverflex contribution for other health expensesRetirement savings opportunities through CoverflexUnlimited personal time off, paid holidays, and company holiday break (12/24 - 1/1)Annual corporate retreat (Kevelfest)Company provided Mac machine and €445 home office allowanceParental leave support with salary continuation and benefits€267 annual allowance for news subscriptionAward-winning company culture and transparency

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