Senior Cloud/Platform Engineer (Azure PaaS)

At Mindera, we craft software with people we love. 💛

We’re looking for a Senior Azure Platform Engineer to join our Cloud PaaS team!

In this role, you will be a key architect and operator of a modern, self-service Kubernetes platform that empowers hundreds of developers. You will help build a compelling internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) product, ensuring our application teams can ship software at an enterprise scale—fast, safe, and efficiently. We don't just chase trends; we choose technologies like AKS, Istio, Flux, and Crossplane because they deliver real value to our ecosystem.

Requirements

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Design, develop, and operate a large-scale PaaS for containerized workloads, acting as the Azure Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the team.

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Engineers to plan and implement the technical roadmap for our strategic cloud platform.

• Build reliability and fault tolerance into the product, engineering systems that are simple to diagnose and fix. (Participation in out-of-hours support may be required).

• Streamline developer workflows by maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automating infrastructure through Terraform and GitOps (Flux).

• Guide and support the team by sharing technical knowledge, fostering an environment of performance and continuous learning.

• Implement and maintain robust security standards using tools like Hashicorp Vault and OPA Gatekeeper.

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Extensive hands-on experience and expertise with Microsoft Azure in a commercial, large-scale environment.

• Strong experience with AKS and cloud-native tooling (Helm, Istio, Flux, Crossplane).

• Proven track record of managing and automating enterprise estates via Terraform.

• Proficiency in one or more of our core languages: Go, Typescript, Python, or Bash.

• Experience with monitoring and logging stacks (ELK/EFK, Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, New Relic) and a solid understanding of SRE/ITIL principles.

• Comfortable in fast-paced environments using Agile methodologies and tools like JIRA for diligent tracking.

• You display pragmatism, empathy, and understanding when interacting with stakeholders and developer customers.

We'd love to get to know you better!

Benefits

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first!
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote from Portugal is also an option. Remote from other Countries will depend on your current location and Projects.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

Check out our Blog and our Handbook!

Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil