AWS Cloud Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

Axel Springer Tech GmbH; Berlin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Work from abroad (10 days)

Free canteen lunch

Relocation visa guidance

Office in central Berlin

Job summary

Axel Springer Tech GmbH is seeking an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer to design and evolve a scalable internal developer platform on AWS. You will focus on reliability, developer experience, and platform security while enabling product teams to move fast.

Key activities include building on Terraform-driven infrastructure, automating delivery with CI/CD, and delivering self-service capabilities. This role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement in a Berlin-based office.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with large-scale AWS environments.
• Solid knowledge of IaC using Terraform and automation practices.
• End-to-end ownership mindset and ability to drive topics forward in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve internal developer platform on AWS.
• Automate infrastructure delivery through CI/CD pipelines and expand self-service for product teams.
• Own core platform components and enable teams to deploy and operate services autonomously.
• Review PRs, share knowledge, and maintain high engineering standards.

Skills

Cloud platform ownership

Clear communication

End-to-end ownership

Collaborative mindset

Tools

Terraform

Spacelift

CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, etc.)

Job description

As an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer, you build and evolve the foundation that enables our product teams to move fast, safely, and at scale.

Our central application platform is the backbone for both high-traffic digital products like welt.de and bild.de, as well as business-critical internal systems across editorial, subscription, and commercial domains. Your work directly impacts how efficiently teams can develop, deploy, and operate software.

You will shape a modern internal developer platform on AWS — focusing on scalability, reliability, and developer experience — while helping drive our journey towards platform engineering excellence.

We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies. Our five essentials are the values that unite us and our compass in our commitment to freedom.

How you'll make an impact

• Design, build, and continuously improve our internal developer platform on AWS using Terraform, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and developer experience
• Automate infrastructure delivery through CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Spacelift) and expand self-service capabilities for product teams
• Own and evolve core platform components so teams can build, deploy, and operate services more autonomously
• Review pull requests, share knowledge, and help maintain high engineering standards across the platform
• Evaluate and introduce new AWS services, tools, and cloud-native patterns where they add clear value
• Strengthen the platform’s security, compliance, and resilience through clear standards, guardrails, and robust platform design
• Work closely with product teams to understand their needs, remove bottlenecks in developer workflows, and translate those needs into scalable platform solutions

What you'll need

• Strong hands-on experience operating critical large-scale AWS environments, with broad knowledge of AWS technologies across areas such as compute, storage, networking, backup and recovery, and cloud security best practices
• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CI/CD and automation practices, agile software delivery, and Platform Engineering concepts, ideally including the development of internal developer platforms
• A strong sense of end-to-end ownership and the ability to reliably drive topics forward, even in complex environments
• Clear and respectful communication skills, openness to feedback, and a collaborative mindset that supports knowledge sharing and continuous learning
• A systems and product mindset with a strong focus on internal users and their needs
• The ability to challenge existing solutions thoughtfully and make sound engineering trade-offs that balance quality, speed, and maintainability
• Curiosity, forward-looking thinking, and a structured approach to discussions that helps drive continuous improvement

What we offer

• your personal growth is important to us: we offer trainings and learning lunches, tech conferences, a budget for workshops and much more to expand your knowledge and your skills
• Employee offers that suit you and your life situation: Whether it's a discounted public transport ticket or JobRad leasing, a bicycle garage (incl. regular bicycle service), childcare facilities or two modern in-house kindergartens
• 30 days vacation plus 10 days work from abroad
• our free food offer: we offer free lunch in our canteens
• we offer guidance on the administrative side of relocation and visa processes through our relocation agency
• collaboration thrives on direct exchange - we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
• from now a permanent full- or part-time position in a modern office in the heart of Berlin: http://www.axelspringer-neubau.de/

Questions and answers about the application process

The most frequently asked questions and their answers can be found on our FAQ page: career.axelspringer.com/en/faq

Diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture!

We are looking forward to receiving all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

You can find information about the representation for the severely disabled at Axel Springer here: https://career.axelspringer.com/en/rsde

Contact person for this position (reference number REF2884A) is Daniel Müller-Secorsky