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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 16 days Upwork's roles stay open a median of 41 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Upwork's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Upwork
- high 4 stale, 0 reposted of 9 open
- Hiring momentum
- 18 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Upwork's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Upwork.
About this role
The Senior Platform Operations and Network Engineer will be responsible for operating and enhancing Upwork's cloud and network infrastructure, ensuring reliability, automation, and operational readiness. This role involves managing the infrastructure lifecycle, improving network connectivity, and collaborating with various teams to implement safer infrastructure changes and faster recovery processes. The engineer will also focus on building reusable infrastructure, maintaining consistent systems, and supporting security and compliance requirements.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Upwork as an employer.
What you need
- Deep experience operating production infrastructure across multiple cloud providers, accounts, and environments.
- Advanced Terraform expertise, including reusable module design, remote state, dependency management, upgrades, policy controls, and drift remediation.
- Strong knowledge of Linux systems, infrastructure lifecycle management, configuration management, patching, backup, recovery, and capacity planning.
- Strong network engineering experience across cloud and corporate environments, including routing, DNS, load balancing, segmentation, firewalls, VPNs, private connectivity, switching, and enterprise Wi-Fi.
- Deep hands-on experience operating Kubernetes and Amazon EKS at scale, including cluster lifecycle, node groups, autoscaling, CNI networking, ingress, storage, upgrades, observability, and incident response.
- Experience diagnosing failures across infrastructure, operating systems, Kubernetes, applications, and network boundaries.
Nice to have
- Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools for troubleshooting, automation, and documentation, with appropriate review before production use.
What you get
- Healthcare coverage for you and your family
- Life insurance
- Meal allowance
- Mental health support
- Wellness reimbursement program
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Worth weighing
- Position requires 3 days per week in office in Lisbon, Portugal.
- No specific mention of remote work options beyond the stated in-office requirement.
- Annual base salary range is provided but may vary based on skills and experience.
- The use of AI-enabled tools for interviews may be a consideration for candidates concerned about privacy.
Summarised from Upwork's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Upwork on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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