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You use tooling and automation wherever possible to reduce toil, and enjoy sharing knowledge with others. * Cloud-native expertise: At least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure. * Automation mindset: Experience automating workflows and CI/CD pipelines and working with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible. * Observability experience: Hands-on experience using and maintaining tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry to improve reliability and performance. * Strong ownership: You proactively address platform issues and work toward long-term scalability and resilience. * Collaborative approach: You work effectively with developers and cross-functional teams to align goals and deliver impactful yet simple solutions. * Continuous learning: You keep developing your knowledge of cloud-native tools, technologies, and practices in a fast-moving ecosystem. ## Description As a Platform Engineer, you'll work at the intersection of development, infrastructure, and operations. You'll help shape and execute our long-term platform vision, empowering Catawiki teams to deliver value to customers with speed, reliability, and security., You'll build and improve the platform capabilities that enable our engineering teams to develop, deploy, and operate applications effectively at scale. * Build a self-service developer platform with a particular emphasis on developer experience, designing and maintaining platforms that abstract complexity and give teams the tools to deploy, monitor, and optimise their applications. * Orchestrate cloud-native infrastructure, manage Kubernetes clusters and other cloud resources, focusing on performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through FinOps practices. * Boost developer productivity by building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and reusable templates that accelerate development and deployment cycles. * Drive reliability and scalability through applying practices for fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and scaling so applications run smoothly under changing conditions. * Improve platform operations usage and enhance our observability stack to monitor platform health and resolve incidents proactively. * Collaborate and innovate by partnering with product teams to understand their needs, build simple and impactful solutions, and champion cloud-native best practices across Catawiki., The Platform Horizontal supports engineering teams across Catawiki by reducing infrastructure complexity and providing reliable, secure, and scalable foundations. * We collaborate closely with product teams to understand their challenges and improve their development experience. * We favour self-service capabilities, reusable solutions, automation, and measurable, gradual improvements. * We share knowledge and treat reliability, security, quality, and developer experience as shared responsibilities., This is a Hybrid role based in Lisbon. You will work from our Lisbon Office a minimum of 2 days per week., * Learn and grow through our Learning & Development initiatives, including clear development plans and mentorship programmes to support your career progression. * A culture of connection defines us. We're a passionate, diverse team of 800+ Catawikians representing 60+ nationalities. We foster an inclusive and queer-friendly environment where everyone is encouraged to bring their full self to work. * Celebrate life's moments with us. You'll receive a €100 Catavoucher when you join, a €50 Catavoucher on your birthday, and an extra day off each year to "Pursue Your Passion". We also offer additional leave for key work anniversaries and important life events. Benefits may vary by location. ## Related Videos - [Dev & Test in the Cloud? 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