Senior Platform Engineer

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Job Summary: As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will develop, maintain, and optimize the data platform, identify opportunities, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to transform healthcare. Key Highlights: 1. Develop and optimize data platforms. 2. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams in data engineering. 3. Contribute to transforming healthcare through technology. We support physicians throughout their entire journey and seek individuals who align with our purpose, values, and culture to join our team. Let’s transform healthcare together—with those who embrace medicine as their vocation! This is an open position within the Medical Practice Solutions division, offering fully **remote** work based in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, and Ribeirão Preto. By assuming the role of **Senior Platform Engineer** at Afya, your primary objective will be to develop, maintain, optimize, and proactively identify opportunities for the data platform. You will work within the Data Engineering area under the Foundation Directorate and be part of a multidisciplinary team, interacting daily with colleagues from SRE, Data Analytics, and Data Governance teams. **All our opportunities are open to people with disabilities (PwD) and INSS-rehabilitated individuals.** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Responsibilities and Duties** **HOW YOU WILL TRANSFORM HEALTHCARE DAILY:** * Modify or create resources in cloud environments (AWS and Azure); * Modify or create new features in Databricks; * Modify or create new application features in Kubernetes; * Propose and implement architectural improvements; * Implement LGPD-related controls in the data lake; * Implement Databricks metadata dashboards and analytics for governance and compliance; * Conduct audits jointly with the Governance team to align the data lake with company security policies; * Monitor and analyze costs to identify bottlenecks and cost-reduction opportunities; * Collaborate with Data Analytics and AI teams to optimize jobs and resources; * Collaborate with other platform engineers to support skill development; * Serve as the technical reference point for platform-related matters—both for data stakeholders and for business and product stakeholders. **Requirements and Qualifications** **WHAT WE SEEK (though we do not expect any single candidate to meet all requirements):** * Completed undergraduate degree; * Solid knowledge of relational and non-relational databases, standards, modeling, and use cases; * Experience with programming languages for maintaining data pipelines (Python, shell/bash) and file manipulation for this purpose—for example: JSON, Parquet, CSV; * Experience consuming APIs, cleaning, processing, deduplicating, enriching, and normalizing data; * Experience with messaging infrastructure using Kafka + Debezium; * Experience with Kubernetes cluster infrastructure, such as EKS and AKS; * Solid SQL knowledge and basic DBT knowledge; * Experience with cloud computing projects (primarily AWS and/or Azure); * Experience with Gitflow and version control; * Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform); * Experience with distributed processing (Databricks/Spark); * Experience with Docker; * Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow and Databricks Workflows; * Knowledge of data architecture; * Experience building CI/CD pipelines; * Experience with observability tools (Grafana/CloudWatch) **Additional Information** #### **Additional Information** #### **PEOPLE ARE OUR GREATEST ASSET—thus, we offer benefits and partnerships for our team.** **Key highlights below:** **For daily life:** * Meal allowance / food voucher; * Flexible working hours and remote work options (for remote positions); * Transportation allowance (for hybrid or on-site positions); **Salary enhancement:** * Profit-sharing program (PLR); * Multibenefits: Flexible benefit via Flash Card, usable as preferred. **Family, Health & Well-being:** * Gympass / Wellhub; * Viva Psychology (online platform for consultations with psychologists and nutritionists); * Health and dental insurance; * Life insurance; * Extended parental leave (up to 6 months for mothers and 20 days for fathers); * D'Ór Network: Support and key health information for moms and babies via a network of accredited nurses; * Partnership with SESC in your region (diverse programming across education, health, culture, leisure, and social assistance); * Birthday Day Off (one paid day off to take on your birthday or anytime during your birth month). **Development and Learning:** * Learning platform with numerous courses to enhance your expertise (UCA); * Language academy (AIA); * Leadership development program; * Mentoring Program for Afya Women (MMA); * Discounts on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Afya educational units.  **Bonus for Medical Faculty:** * Premium subscription to Afya iClinic and Afya Whitebook **THE LARGEST ECOSYSTEM OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE SOLUTIONS IN BRAZIL.** The Afya brand was launched in 2019, but our story began much earlier. We emerged from the merger between NRE Educacional—the largest group of medical schools in Brazil, founded in 1999—and MEDCEL, a brand specializing in medical residency exam preparation courses. Through rapid growth, we have acquired new educational units over recent years—now totaling over 30 across Brazil—and more than 10 startups delivering digital solutions for medical practice—Afya Whitebook, Afya iClinic, Afya Papers, Glic, and Cliquefarma are among the brands in our portfolio. Visit afya.com.br to learn more about our history and all the solutions we offer. Afya has been a publicly traded company since 2019, with shares listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange in the United States. In 2023, we also made our shares available on the Brazilian stock exchange, B3. Learn more at ir.afya.com.br. **Our purpose is to transform healthcare alongside those who embrace medicine as their vocation.** To achieve this, we rely on a team of 10,000 curious, collaborative, committed, adaptable, and results-driven individuals—from every corner of Brazil, speaking diverse regional accents, yet united by the same language and shared purpose. If you resonate with the Afya way, **join us in transforming healthcare through education and technology**. \#VemSerAfya