Senior Platform Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Platform Engineer

• Focus: CI/CD platform ownership, DevOps automation, and DevSecOps enablement

• Platform security: supply-chain security, SBOMs, vulnerability management, secrets detection, and quality gates

Description

You will take technical ownership of a software development platform and its CI/CD ecosystem, enabling secure, reliable software delivery and improving developer experience and operational efficiency. Work includes administering GitLab CI/CD and the DevOps toolchain, integrating security into pipelines (SCA, SBOMs, vulnerability management, secrets detection), and operating Jira/Confluence on Amazon EKS. You will also support engineering teams, maintain reliability practices (backups, disaster recovery, restore testing), and drive metrics, dashboards, documentation, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the CI/CD ecosystem (GitLab CI/CD templates, builder images, Maven parent POMs, multi-stack pipelines)

• Administer and evolve the DevOps toolchain (GitLab, CI runners, build agents, artifact repositories, code quality, observability)

• Operate Jira and Confluence on Amazon EKS

• Integrate security into CI/CD via software composition analysis, SBOMs, vulnerability management, secrets detection, and quality gates

• Support platform requests, troubleshooting, and technical guidance for development teams

• Maintain engineering metrics and dashboards; ensure reliability with backups, disaster recovery, restore tests, incident management, and root cause analysis

• Provide documentation, training, reporting, mentoring, and collaborate with technology vendors

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent professional experience

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

• Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines and software development platforms, preferably GitLab CI/CD

• Strong knowledge of Git and Linux (RHEL or Rocky Linux)

• Proficiency with Bash and Python

• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes

• Knowledge of Java and Maven (POMs, plugins, releases)

• Experience with PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, SQL, ETL, and dashboards

• Knowledge of DevSecOps and software supply chain security (SCA, SBOMs, vulnerability management, authentication, secrets management)

• Working knowledge of AWS

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

• Strong ownership, communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills

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

Benefits

• Improve developer experience and operational efficiency through platform and CI/CD automation

• Work on DevSecOps and software supply chain security with quality gates and security scanning integrated into pipelines

• Contribute to engineering reliability through backup/DR practices, incident support, and root cause analysis