Platform Engineer (564)

Job description

**Platform Engineer** **About the opportunity** Drive broad organizational impact by building internal platform capabilities, optimizing infrastructure, and empowering product engineering teams to scale seamlessly. **About our client** Our client is a global full-service credit rating agency, providing credit ratings, investor research, and market data across US and European markets with a focus on trust and transparency. **What you'll do** - Drive broad organizational impact by building strong relationships with engineering teams across the company, ensuring changes are thoughtfully evaluated for their effects on multiple products and users. - Champion a supportive, patient approach when partnering with engineering teams adopting new operational practices or tooling, and assisting with troubleshooting. - Build and maintain internal platform capabilities that reduce operational burden on product engineering teams, enabling them to focus on delivering business value rather than managing infrastructure. - Embed security into platform foundations — including *IAM*, secrets management, network controls, and compliance guardrails. - Take full ownership of your work from design through production. - Give and receive candid, constructive feedback openly. - Work with a high degree of initiative — identify blockers and resolve them independently to keep progress moving. - Favor iterative delivery: ship smaller, incremental improvements over large, high-risk releases. - Collaborate enthusiastically with teammates and cross-functional stakeholders. - Be comfortable with ambiguity and defining processes from scratch. **What you bring (must-haves)** - 4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering or *DevOps*. - 4+ years of experience in Software Engineering. - Strong AWS expertise, including Organizations, account management, and *IAM*. - Deep hands-on experience with *Elastic* Kubernetes Service (*EKS*) and *Docker*-based containerization. - Solid understanding of cloud networking. - Proven Infrastructure-as-Code experience with *Terraform*. - Proficiency with AI tooling to increase productivity such as *Claude* Code and *Copilot*. - Experience building and maintaining GitLab *CI/CD* pipelines. - Proficiency with *Python* programming. **Bonus points for (nice-to-haves)** - Experience with *Datadog* for monitoring and observability. - Exposure to Azure. - Familiarity with Artifactory for artifact management. **Perks & benefits** 💻 Equipment provided — none of that "bring your own device" stuff here 🛡️ Full back-office support — Legal, Accounting, HR Business Partner, and Delivery team 🧭 Career and cultural mentoring — how to show up, stand out, and navigate US work culture 🗣️ Free English lessons with a native speaker 🤝 Referral bonus — recommend Ubi to your tech friends and get paid for it 🏖️ Florianópolis HQ always open — 100% remote, but the office is there whenever you want it. **How the process works** 1. Interview with our Tech Recruiter (+ quick AI assessment, if needed) 2. Client interview process (varies by company) 3. Offer 🎉 4. Onboarding with full Ubiminds support **Why Ubiminds?** With 9 years in the market and GPTW-certified, Ubiminds connects Latin American tech professionals with software companies in the US and Canada. Hundreds of professionals in data, design, product, and engineering are already growing in North American teams with our support. We're with you throughout the entire journey — Recruitment, Legal, Accounting, PeopleOps, and career guidance — so you can thrive internationally with confidence. Ready to go global? Apply now — it takes less than 5 minutes.