Sr. Platform Engineer
Remote Portugal Full-time Senior Platform & Infrastructure
At a glance
Senior Platform & Infrastructure role at Intermedia Intelligent Communications. Remote, Portugal · full-time.
Pay not stated Platform Engineer salary
RolePlatform & Infrastructure
SenioritySenior
LocationPortugal
WorkplaceRemote
EmploymentFull-time
PostedJun 9, 2026 · 4mo ago
Role brief
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What you'll do
- Build and run shared runtime services for messaging, event streaming, caching, object storage and logging
- Keep Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis and Elasticsearch reliable in production, including upgrades and capacity needs
- Create Terraform and GitOps automation for provisioning services and managing their lifecycle
- Set safe usage rules and ready-made paths, then connect services to the developer platform for self-service
- Handle incidents, investigate root causes and improve reliability while taking part in the on-call rotation
What you bring
- A computer science, software engineering or information technology bachelor’s degree
- Senior-level experience running stateful distributed systems in production, including Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis and Elasticsearch
- A track record operating infrastructure mainly on-prem, with strong Linux, networking and storage fundamentals
- Deep Infrastructure-as-Code experience, plus GitOps and declarative infrastructure skills
- Knowledge of reliability practices such as service objectives, error budgets, alerting and capacity planning
Who this fits
This is a senior individual-contributor role on a small team, suited to someone who can work independently and own complex systems through ambiguity. The role is primarily remote in Portugal, with occasional office visits in Coimbra. On-call may initially include a weekly, round-the-clock rotation, with a planned move to business-hours primary coverage.
From the employer
About Intermedia
Are you looking for a company where YOUR VOICE is heard? Where you can MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Do you THRIVE in a FAST-PACED work environment? Do you wake every morning EXCITED to work with GREAT PEOPLE and create SUCCESS TOGETHER? Then Intermedia is the place for you.
Intermedia has established itself as a leading provider of cloud communications and collaboration tech that allows companies to connect better. We have a strong track record of growth, profitability, and creating an environment where everyone matters. Everyone. While we are fast-paced and admittedly a bit intense, we promise that you won’t be bored. You will find Intermedia is a place where you can indulge your passion for creating and supporting great cloud technology. What’s more, we always look to promote from within and have many employees who have been with us 10, 15, and 20+ years!
Culture at Intermedia is built on teamwork and transparency. We hold each other accountable and always have each other’s back!
Are you ready to make your mark?
About the role:
While primarily remote, this role requires occasional visits to the office in Coimbra. We plan to open offices in Aveiro and Porto in the future. This approach gives team members the flexibility to work remotely while also coming together in the office for collaboration and teamwork.
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join Intermedia and help build, operate, and evolve the Resource Plane of our Internal Developer Platform (IDP). This is a senior individual contributor role operating in a small, high-impact team responsible for shared, non-database runtime services. The team owns critical infrastructure services such as event streaming, messaging, caching, object storage, and logging backends. The scope of this platform is expected to evolve over time, requiring engineers who are comfortable operating under ambiguity and taking ownership of complex, stateful systems.
Are you looking for a company where YOUR VOICE is heard? Where you can MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Do you THRIVE in a FAST-PACED work environment? Do you wake every morning EXCITED to work with GREAT PEOPLE and create SUCCESS TOGETHER? Then Intermedia is the place for you.
Intermedia has established itself as a leading provider of cloud communications and collaboration tech that allows companies to connect better. We have a strong track record of growth, profitability, and creating an environment where everyone matters. Everyone. While we are fast-paced and admittedly a bit intense, we promise that you won’t be bored. You will find Intermedia is a place where you can indulge your passion for creating and supporting great cloud technology. What’s more, we always look to promote from within and have many employees who have been with us 10, 15, and 20+ years!
Culture at Intermedia is built on teamwork and transparency. We hold each other accountable and always have each other’s back!
Are you ready to make your mark?
About the role:
While primarily remote, this role requires occasional visits to the office in Coimbra. We plan to open offices in Aveiro and Porto in the future. This approach gives team members the flexibility to work remotely while also coming together in the office for collaboration and teamwork.
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join Intermedia and help build, operate, and evolve the Resource Plane of our Internal Developer Platform (IDP). This is a senior individual contributor role operating in a small, high-impact team responsible for shared, non-database runtime services. The team owns critical infrastructure services such as event streaming, messaging, caching, object storage, and logging backends. The scope of this platform is expected to evolve over time, requiring engineers who are comfortable operating under ambiguity and taking ownership of complex, stateful systems.
- Own the design, implementation, and operation of 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, reliability, and safe upgrades of stateful systems
- Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps-based automation for provisioning and lifecycle management
- Define and enforce supported usage patterns, guardrails, and golden paths for platform consumers
- Integrate Resource Plane services into the Internal Developer Platform for self-service consumption
- Participate in on-call rotation (initially may include 24x7 weekly rotation; target state is business-hours primary)
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements for owned services
- Collaborate closely with Kubernetes Platform Team, IDP and other teams as required
- Act as a senior technical voice in architecture discussions and platform roadmap planning
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
- 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
- Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and storage fundamentals
- Deep experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
- Experience with GitOps workflows and declarative infrastructure management
- Solid grasp of reliability engineering concepts (SLOs, error budgets, alerting, capacity planning)
- Experience working with Kubernetes-adjacent platforms and services
- Ability to operate independently and take ownership in a small team environment
- 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
- Exposure to security, compliance, and governance requirements for shared infrastructure
- Prior experience in staff- or principal-level technical leadership roles
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