Platform Engineer em Lisboa, Portugal

Join Axians, where innovation thrives on trust and autonomy, and where every challenge is an opportunity to create technology with impact.

Plataform Engineer
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for a Platform Engineer to help design, build, and optimize scalable platform solutions that support our growing microservices architecture. Your mission is to deliver reliable, efficient, and automated platform capabilities that enable development teams to build, deploy, and operate applications effectively. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical challenges, drive platform improvements, and implement best practices that enhance scalability, performance, and operational maturity. Working at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, automation, DevOps, and software engineering, you will play a key role in fostering innovation and supporting the organization's technology growth.

What You Will Do on a Daily Basis

• Design, build and evolve the internal developer platform for Java/Spring Boot services running across AWS, Azure and Kubernetes environments;

• Create reusable deployment patterns, Helm charts and self-service templates for containerised applications using

• Docker, Kubernetes, etc.;

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Ansible and CloudFormation, covering environments, networking, identity, secrets, storage and application runtime services;

• Build and improve CI/CD capabilities using GitHub, Jenkins, Argo CD, Maven, Gradle, Nexus and Sonar, enabling secure and automated software delivery;

• Enable reliable API and integration delivery across Apigee, OpenAPI, REST, SOAP and gRPC, including authentication and authorisation patterns based on OAuth2/OIDC, SAML, Azure AD and Azure AD B2C;

• Support event-driven and data-integration solutions;

• Provide shared observability capabilities, including actionable dashboards, alerting and tracing standards;

• Embed security and compliance controls into platform defaults for secrets, vulnerability management, certificates and secure delivery;

• Partner with engineering teams to improve the developer experience for applications using databases/datastores;

• Improve platform resilience, performance and operational readiness through incident learning, runbooks, capacity management and automation that reduces operational toil;

• Track adoption, reliability and delivery outcomes, continuously evolving the platform based on measurable improvements and engineering-team feedback..

Your Main Qualifications

• Several years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability

• Engineering or a closely related role in a complex environment;

• Strong practical experience with one major cloud provider, ideally AWS; exposure to Azure is an advantage;

• Experience with infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform and/or cloud-native tooling;

• Hands-on experience with containers and Kubernetes, including deployment, networking, storage, security and operational troubleshooting;

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, automated testing, artifact management and release practices;

• Experience designing or operating observability, logging and monitoring solutions, and confidence troubleshooting distributed systems;

• Good scripting or software engineering skills, preferably Python; experience with TypeScript, Java or similar languages is welcome;

• Solid knowledge of cloud security fundamentals: identity and access management, secrets management, encryption, network controls and audit logging;

• A product mindset: you listen to engineering teams, simplify their experience and balance standardisation with practical flexibility;

• Clear communication skills in English and confidence working with distributed, cross-functional and international teams.

What We Offer

Stable professional career

Working with Axians projects becomes an asset to those of us who want to offer stability through a secure career.

Prospects for career advancement

You can access training and new certifications that will further elevate your skills. The 360° evaluation from managers and peers will also allow you to evolve.

Work Life Balance

By collaborating with Axians, you will be able to reconcile work and family requirements without neglecting either area.

Attractive, evolving compensation

When working with Axians, you will have access to performance bonuses in addition to an attractive salary pack (base salary + benefits). You are also entitled to health insurance and an employee assistance program for you and your family (Psychological, Legal, Psychosocial, and Financial support).

Axians is the VINCI Energies brand dedicated to Information Technology and Digital Transformation. With an international presence and a people-to-people approach, we combine technology, innovation, and proximity to create real impact for organizations and society.

Join Axians

At Axians, we believe that talent does not fit a single profile. We value diversity and promote an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to grow and contribute. If you have a disability or impairment, we are committed to ensuring equal opportunities throughout the recruitment and onboarding process. Whenever needed, we provide reasonable accommodations so that you can participate on an equal basis. If you require any accommodation, please let us know by contacting us at [email protected] .