Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure) - Remote Portugal

Job description

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY: A leading international software engineering and consultancy company is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with deep Azure expertise to join a growing Platform Engineering team embedded in a retail-sector client — a high-scale, product-driven environment where infrastructure quality directly enables hundreds of engineers to ship faster and more reliably. PROJECT & CONTEXT: You'll be designing, building, and evolving a core internal developer platform built heavily on Azure , with AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) at its center. The platform underpins container orchestration, infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and application lifecycle management for the wider engineering organisation. The stack is modern and opinionated: Terraform for IaC, GitOps principles throughout, FluxCD for continuous delivery, Kong for API gateway, Linkerd for service mesh, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, and Dynatrace for observability. Security is first-class — zero-trust principles are embedded in the architecture, not bolted on. This is a platform engineering role with a genuine software engineering dimension — you'll be writing tooling and automation in Go, C#, or JavaScript...