Mid/Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, guide architectural decisions, and build secure, scalable, observable AWS platforms.

You will mentor engineers, advance DevOps practices, and implement IaC and CI/CD across the software lifecycle in an international setting. Strong English, Agile experience, and travel readiness are required.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience as a Senior Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or in a similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS networking, account management, and core infra services.
• Professional experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible for IaC and configuration management.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins.
• Knowledge of observability/monitoring solutions like Grafana, Kibana, Datadog, or CloudWatch.
• Scripting skills with Bash, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience implementing infra automation, security, scalability, and cost-optimization best practices.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and production incident resolution.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Fluent English (mandatory) for daily collaboration with international teams.

Aufgaben

• Take ownership of cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to architectural decisions.
• Collaborate to design secure, scalable cloud platforms.
• Mentor engineers and promote DevOps best practices across the lifecycle.
• Work on AWS-based modern cloud-native platforms.
• Support full infrastructure lifecycle using IaC and CI/CD automation.
• Emphasize reliability, observability, security, and scalability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, leadership, and stakeholders in an international environment.
• Be adaptable to travel up to 15%.

Kenntnisse

Cloud architecture

DevOps practices

Mentoring teams

Agile development

Stakeholder management

Communications (English)

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Terragrunt

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

Grafana

Kibana

Datadog

CloudWatch

Bash

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Jobbeschreibung

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design secure, scalable, and resilient cloud platforms.
• Mentor engineers, improve operational excellence, and promote DevOps best practices across the software delivery lifecycle.
• Work on modern cloud-native platforms hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Support the full infrastructure lifecycle using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD automation.
• Emphasize reliability, observability, security, and scalability in the environment.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, technical leadership, and business stakeholders in an international environment.
• Be adaptable to occasional national and international travel (estimated up to 15%).

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or in a similar role.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including networking, account management, and core infrastructure services.
• Professional experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible for Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Jenkins.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring solutions such as Grafana, Kibana, Datadog, or AWS CloudWatch.
• Scripting skills with Bash, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience implementing infrastructure automation, security, scalability, and cost‑optimization best practices.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, including root cause analysis and production incident resolution.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Fluent English (mandatory) for daily collaboration with international teams.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in cloud infrastructure ownership and architectural decision‑making, with a strong focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Infrastructure as Code practices. Proven ability to mentor teams, enhance operational excellence, and implement security and scalability best practices in cloud‑native environments.