Senior Platform Engineer (Azure and Terraform)

If you enjoy working on a single project for an extended period, we have an exciting opportunity! Join our product development dedicated team, where you'll work on a diverse environment. You'll get to work with cutting-edge technologies such as Terraform and Azure.

At Zühlke, you are where innovation happens. We focus on teamwork, agile collaboration, and leading technologies to shape the future and challenge the status quo. As an innovative service provider, we work closely with our clients to bring new and exciting ideas to life. Companies come to us with complex and challenging problems and rely on us to break down barriers and explore new territory. This is how we innovate. 

Your talent:

• You have a technical-related degree and/or equivalent professional qualification
• You are communicative and have an open-minded personality
• You are fluent in English (both written and oral)

• At least 5 years of experience in Azure
• Working experience with Terraform
• Solid understanding of DevOps principles and practices
• Exposure to Azure Functions – e.g Storage, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, RedIS, Service Bus and Event Grid
• Working experience with relational databases (experience with NoSQL is a plus)
• Ability to apply architectural and design patterns with focus on quality, readability and maintainability
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
• Working experience with versioning tools – e.g Jira and Git
• Experience with monitoring for services – e.g Azure
• Experience with scripting - e.g Python, PowerShell, Shellscripting or Bash

• Working experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Working experience with Contentful or other content management systems
• Knowledge of best practices in security and infrastructure as code
• Working in an agile team, with a good understanding of the concepts, practical experience

• Ownership of important technical and team topics
• Providing technical guidance and coaching to engineers
• Ensuring that good engineering practices are applied in daily work
• Directly communicating with customers and guiding them towards success
• Working closely with your local and remote colleagues in agile setup
• Creating high-quality solutions while adapting to customer requirements
• Deployment and support team in the full project life cycle
• Being curious, open-minded, and standing by your ideas

You will get a chance to work in an international client-based environment along with the leading experts (50 % of our employees are seniors/consultants) in the industry. We are committed and looking for engineers who will help Zuhlke bring ideas to life, in other words, this is not a project-based position.

Some of our benefits:

• Possibility to reduce working hours up to 32.5h/week
• Option for condensed working week - you can condense your working hours and spread it across 4 working days
• Hybrid workplace - option to work both from home or office in Porto
• Time and money allocated for your upskilling
• International assignments - opportunity to work and gain experience in other Zühlke location
• 25 days of Annual Leave
• Flexi-time - organize your own working hours according to your daily needs  
• Trusted sick leave 
• Private Health Insurance
• Top-notch equipment & working with cutting-edge technologies  
• Referral bonuses
• Various social Zühlke events
   

At Zühlke you will feel included.

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status or disability. 
We communicate openly with each other, assess ourselves honestly and enjoy working a team. We work in a diverse and multicultural environment with people from all over the world.

Apply to learn more about this opportunity at Zühlke!

Even if you feel you don't meet all the requirements yet, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas. We look forward to receiving your application - see what it is like when you get immediate feedback after every step of the interview process.