Portugal
Mindrift
Bridge 351
Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer
RemotePortugal
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
PythonAWSGCPKubernetesGoTerraform
About the opportunity
(the candidate can work remotely from any Portuguese region)
What we are looking for
- Several years of experience in DevOps or infrastructure-related roles, with the ability to design, operate, and evolve Kubernetes-based platforms at scale
- At least 1+ year of hands-on daily production experience with Kubernetes, including cluster lifecycle management, ingress controllers, service meshes, and cert-manager
- Experience writing and maintaining Helm charts or Kustomize configurations
- Hands-on experience with OKD or OpenShift
- Strong experience with Terraform and Helm for platform automation and configuration management
- Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows, ideally with ArgoCD
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or Bash for automation workflows and platform tooling
- Strong knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, including experience designing and implementing SLI/SLO frameworks for distributed systems
- Familiarity with security standards, platform security best practices, and integrating compliance requirements into platform architectures
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with a structured, self-directed, and reliable working style
- Comfortable working in multinational teams
- Very good written and verbal communication skills in English
- Experience collaborating across cross-functional teams, mentoring colleagues, and contributing to technical growth and infrastructure roadmaps
What will be a plus
- Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS
- Experience with Ansible
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Multi-cluster Kubernetes experience
- Familiarity with Security Context Constraints (SCCs), Cluster Version Operator (CVO), Machine Config Operator (MCO), Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM), and OKD Routes
- Familiarity with OVN-Kubernetes networking and network policy design
- Knowledge of Longhorn or comparable Kubernetes-native storage systems
- Experience developing or operating Kubernetes Operators
- Familiarity with Operator SDK or Kubebuilder
- Experience writing ADRs, runbooks, and platform design documentation
What can you expect from us?
Mind-blowing workplace culture. You will be integrated in a professional, dynamic and collaborative team.
100% Remote opportunities
We want you to have the flexibility to work where you feel most comfortable and productive.
International Career
You can expect professional growth and to be connect with the world.
Extra Benefits & Perks
If you wish to work with us and you are outside European Union (good news…) we are a Tech Visa Company, We will help!
As a plus, we provide Health and Life Insurance.
We are represented in Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Denmark.
And with projects in many other countries: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Singapore and in the United States of America (and a lot more is coming…)
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