Senior/Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Role: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Contract: Full time Permanent

Signify have partnered with a client in Portugal looking for a senior level Cloud Infrastructure Engineer . This is a strategic, hands-on role where you’ll define architectural direction, establish standards, and partner across teams to build a secure, scalable, and future-ready platform.

You’ll influence foundational decisions across Kubernetes, cloud networking, edge strategy, and multi-account design ensuring the platform can support growth without adding unnecessary complexity.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the evolution of cloud and platform architecture standards across core infrastructure domains.
• Design and validate Kubernetes platform architecture, including cluster lifecycle management, autoscaling strategies, node provisioning approaches, and container-optimized OS standards.
• Define scalable multi-account and multi-cluster patterns that promote isolation, resilience, and operational clarity.
• Establish cloud networking blueprints covering VPC design, routing strategies, ingress/egress patterns, private connectivity, and transit architecture.
• Own architectural guidance for traffic management and edge services, including CDN, DNS, and TLS strategy.
• Standardize API gateway and north–south access patterns to ensure secure and consistent service exposure.
• Produce and maintain reference architectures, design documentation, and architectural guardrails.
• Review and validate platform design proposals to ensure alignment with long-term strategy.
• Stay hands-on through proof of concepts and technical deep dives to validate architectural decisions.
• Partner with engineering, security, and product stakeholders to ensure standards are practical and widely adopted.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or cloud engineering roles with architectural ownership.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating Kubernetes in production environments.
• Deep knowledge of AWS infrastructure, including networking constructs, security controls, and managed services.
• Experience designing cloud networking and edge architectures, including ingress/egress and traffic management patterns.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical requirements into clear standards and reusable reference architectures.
• Comfortable operating as a senior individual contributor influencing multiple engineering teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences