Summary: This hands-on AI & Cloud Platform Engineer role focuses on building and maintaining a modern, reliable, and secure cloud-native platform that integrates workflow automation, data-driven insights, and AI capabilities. Highlights: 1. Shape the operational backbone for a modern AI-driven platform 2. Build systems that scale, fail gracefully, and recover automatically 3. Work in a fast-moving environment where stability and agility coexist **Title:** AI \& Cloud Platform Engineer **Location:** Lisbon, PT **\#job\-location.job\-location\-inline { display:** inline; } **Date:** Aug 21, 2026 At Chain IQ, your ideas move fast. Chain IQ is a global AI\-driven Procurement Service Partner, headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, with operations across main centers and 16 offices worldwide. We provide tailored, end\-to\-end procurement solutions that enable transformation, drive scalability, and deliver substantial reductions in our clients' indirect spend. Our culture is built on innovation, entrepreneurship, ownership, and impact. Here, your voice matters \- bold thinking is encouraged, and action follows ambition. Role purpose We are building a modern platform that blends workflow automation, data\-driven insights, and AI\-supported decision capabilities. This role shapes the operational backbone that makes all of it reliable, secure and fast. You will work on cloud\-native infrastructure, CI/CD automation, environment management, observability and runtime optimization in a live, high\-complexity environment. This is a hands\-on engineering role. You build systems that scale, fail gracefully, and recover automatically. You establish patterns that developers rely on every day. You will operate in a fast\-moving environment where stability and agility must coexist. Why this role matters The success of the platform depends on strong operational foundations. Users expect speed and stability. Internal teams rely on safe, repeatable systems. Automated agents require predictable, observable runtimes. You will help build the environment that powers all of it. Responsibilities Build and maintain cloud environments using infrastructure as code and reusable modules Develop CI/CD pipelines with automated validation, safety controls and progressive rollout patterns Implement observability across logs, metrics and traces, with actionable signal for teams Define and maintain reliability standards including SLOs, error budgets and incident processes Establish secure defaults for environments, services and deployments Optimize runtime performance and cost through data\-driven analysis Remove manual operations by automating environment, deployment and maintenance workflows Collaborate closely with engineering, data and security teams to ensure platform readiness Requirements Strong background in cloud\-native operations, preferably in Azure Experience building automated environments and pipelines at scale Solid understanding of observability, telemetry and reliability engineering Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems and guide teams toward resilient patterns A mindset focused on automation, repeatability and operational simplicity Comfortable working in a fast\-paced environment where infrastructure evolves quickly Join a truly global team. We offer a dynamic and international environment where high performance meets real purpose. We're proud to be Great Place to Work\-certified and even prouder of the people who make that possible. Let’s shape the future of procurement \- together. Chain IQ – Create. Lead. Make an impact. **Information for agencies:** Applications sent or uploaded by placement agencies or similar are not desired, will therefore not be considered and will be deleted.
João Santos
Indeed · HR
João Santos
Indeed · HR
