# Platform Engineer at Catawiki

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> Responsibilities: - Build and maintain a self-service develo

- **Company:** Catawiki (https://jobs.trythestack.co/companies/catawiki)
- **Location:** Lisbon, Portugal
- **Work arrangement:** On-site
- **Employment type:** Full-time
- **Experience level:** 5–10 years
- **Visa sponsorship:** Offered, according to the listing
- **Key skills:** Kubernetes, Cloud-native infrastructure, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Infrastructure-as-code, Observability, FinOps, Automation, Cloud platforms
- **Posted by employer:** 2026-11-05
- **Added to The Stack:** 2026-11-06
- **Listed until:** 2027-01-04
- **Status:** Active
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/catawiki/jobs/8346093 (the employer's own application page)
- **Human page:** https://jobs.trythestack.co/jobs/platform-engineer-catawiki-efc784d7

## About the role

Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain a self-service developer platform that abstracts infrastructure complexity and improves developer experience.
- Operate and scale cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters with attention to performance, cost and reliability.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows and reusable templates to accelerate delivery.
- Improve platform reliability: fault tolerance, disaster recovery, scaling and incident response practices.
- Enhance observability and monitoring: Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/OpenTelemetry for platform health and proactive incident detection.
- Apply automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Ansible) to reduce toil and enforce reproducible environments.
- Work with product teams to understand needs, deliver simple solutions and evangelize cloud-native best practices and FinOps.

Requirements:
- 5+ years production experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration and major cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).
- Strong skills with IaC (Terraform), configuration management (Ansible) and GitOps/CI-CD tooling.
- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry) and incident/operational runbooks.
- Proven automation mindset: reduce manual work, build repeatable pipelines and templates.
- Solid understanding of scalability, performance tuning and cost-optimisation (FinOps) for cloud-native services.
- Good communication and collaboration skills to partner with engineering teams and improve developer workflows.

## Responsibilities

You will build and maintain a self-service developer platform to abstract infrastructure complexity and improve developer productivity. Additionally, you will orchestrate cloud-native infrastructure and enhance observability to ensure system reliability, scalability, and security.

## Requirements

Candidates must have at least 5 years of production experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and major cloud platforms. You should also possess strong skills in automation, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tools.

## FAQ

- **Is this Platform Engineer role still open?** It was posted on 2026-11-05 and is listed as active on The Stack. Confirm on Catawiki's application page before applying.
- **Does Catawiki offer visa sponsorship?** This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Catawiki's site.
- **Where is this role located?** The listing gives the location as Lisbon, Portugal. It is marked on-site.
- **What skills does this role ask for?** The listing names: Kubernetes, Cloud-native infrastructure, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Infrastructure-as-code, Observability, FinOps, Automation, Cloud platforms.

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