Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

(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 • Experience collaborating across cross-functional teams, mentoring colleagues, and contributing to technical growth and infrastructure roadmaps • 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 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?