AWS cloud platform engineer

We are seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to join a strategic Cloud Platform team responsible for supporting, maintaining, and continuously enhancing enterprise-scale AWS Foundation Services. This role integrates Cloud Engineering, Automation, Production Support, Cloud Security, and DevOps, focusing on platform reliability, operational excellence, and increasing automation to minimize manual efforts.

• Support, maintain, and enhance AWS Foundation Services across enterprise-scale cloud environments.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, infrastructure issues, and deployment failures.
• Troubleshoot AWS services using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, metrics, and diagnostic tools.
• Debug and maintain Terraform deployments, GitHub Actions pipelines, Lambda functions, and Step Functions workflows.
• Manage IAM policies, service roles, AWS Organizations, and Service Control Policies (SCPs).
• Ensure compliance with cloud governance, security, and account management standards.
• Investigate and remediate vulnerabilities identified through Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Inspector, and Snyk.
• Implement platform patching, security remediation, and continuous service improvement activities.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions using Python, Terraform, and AWS serverless services.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles.
• Manage support requests and incidents in line with agreed SLAs, keeping customers and stakeholders informed.
• Contribute to platform engineering initiatives, code reviews, and technical best practices.
• Collaborate with Agile/Scrum teams using GitHub, Jira, and Confluence.

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Python, and GitHub Actions.
• Experience working with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
• Good knowledge of IAM, AWS Organizations, SCPs, and cloud governance.
• Experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment issues.
• Understanding of cloud security, vulnerability management, and remediation.
• Experience handling production incidents, support requests, and SLA-driven activities.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, along with a proactive and customer-oriented mindset.
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of issues, and drive them through to resolution.
• Будет плюсом: Experience with AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, and Snyk; Knowledge of serverless architectures and cloud security best practices; Exposure to Kubernetes and container technologies; Experience in DevOps or Cloud Platform Engineering teams; AWS certifications

• This position is part of a hybrid working model, based in Portugal, requiring one day per week, with a potential decrease in attendance.