Cloud Engineer: Secure Sovereign Infra for Space

The Exploration Company; Bordeaux; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Exploration Company in France is seeking a Cloud Engineer to operate and secure the cloud platforms that power our engineering, operations, and data workloads in France. You will design, deploy, and maintain infrastructure on AWS and SecNumCloud-qualified cloud services so teams can work securely and reliably across both environments.

You will work on-site in France, collaborating with engineering teams to translate their needs into resilient, secure infrastructure, with a strong focus on

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps or platform engineering.
• Hands-on AWS or GCP experience with compute, networking, storage and managed DB.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and version control workflows.
• Strong networking and container orchestration knowledge, preferably Kubernetes.
• Security-focused mindset with IAM, encryption and compliance awareness.
• Fluent English; French knowledge is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and SecNumCloud environments.
• Define and maintain architecture across AWS and SecNumCloud for portability.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform) with version control.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure and app builds.
• Manage container platforms and Kubernetes cluster upgrades.
• Set up observability with metrics, logs, and alerts.
• Enforce security and compliance best practices, including IAM and encryption.
• Support audits and evidence collection for SecNumCloud.
• Define backup, retention, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Collaborate with engineering to deliver reliable infrastructure solutions.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps

Platform engineering

Security-first mindset

Fluent English

Multilingual collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Job description

The Exploration Company in France is seeking a Cloud Engineer to operate and secure the cloud platforms that power our engineering, operations, and data workloads in France. You will design, deploy, and maintain infrastructure on AWS and SecNumCloud-qualified cloud services so teams can work securely and reliably across both environments.

You will work on-site in France, collaborating with engineering teams to translate their needs into resilient, secure infrastructure, with a strong focus on