Sr. Resource Plane Platform Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹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 for 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 a 24x7 weekly rotation; target state is business-hours primary)
• ▹Lead incident response, root cause analysis and reliability improvements for owned services
• ▹Collaborate closely with the Kubernetes Platform Team, IDP and other teams
• ▹Act as a senior technical voice in architecture discussions and platform roadmap planning

Requirements

• ▹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 with Kubernetes-adjacent platforms and services
• ▹Ability to operate independently and take ownership in a small team

Nice to have

• ▹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

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Primarily remote, with occasional office visits in Coimbra

About the company

Intermedia is a leading provider of cloud communications and collaboration technology with a record of growth and profitability. Its culture is built on teamwork and transparency, and it promotes from within.