Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d)

Contentful; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An ambitious tech company is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to enhance robust, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure. This role involves designing and maintaining systems that handle billions of requests monthly, utilizing AWS and Terraform while ensuring high availability. You will collaborate with a team of engineers to innovate and improve infrastructure, focusing on observability and operational risk management. Join a diverse group dedicated to creating impactful digital experiences, where your contributions will directly influence the success of the company and its clients.

Benefits

Stock Options

Fertility and Family Benefits

Generous Paid Time Off

Annual Education Budget

Wellbeing Stipend

Communication Stipend

Office Equipment Stipend

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure in high-availability environments.
• Strong AWS knowledge across core services and Terraform expertise.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable infrastructure.
• Deploy and optimize Kubernetes clusters and ensure workload scaling.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Networking Concepts

Observability Stacks

Programming (Go preferred)

SRE Practices

English Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Splunk

New Relic

Job description

Contentful operates highly scalable high throughput cloud infrastructure that enables our products to deliver reliable value to our customers.

We’re looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d) who cares deeply about building and operating robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure. You’ll help shape the backbone that supports hundreds of billions of requests per month, working in an engaging environment and tackling various challenges.

This is not just about maintaining systems - it’s about improving them thoughtfully. You’ll work in a team that values short, fast iterations while always keeping long-term strategy in mind. We are focused on solving real problems and delivering value to both internal and external customers.

You’ll join a team of thoughtful, collaborative engineers who support each other, share knowledge freely, and work closely with product teams. If you’re someone who thrives on responsibility, takes pride in enabling high performance infrastructure - this might be the right place for you.

What to Expect

• You’ll design, build, and maintain infrastructure that must be highly available, secure, and scalable - serving billions of monthly requests.
• You’ll work with AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
• You’ll deploy and optimize Kubernetes clusters and help ensure that workloads scale and recover gracefully.
• You’ll collaborate across domains and teams to enable infrastructure improvements.
• You’ll work to improve observability at scale.
• You’ll help us stay ahead of operational risks - anticipating bottlenecks or failure points before they cause problems.
• You’ll be involved in incident response and postmortems.

What You Need to Be Successful

• 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure in high-availability environments.
• Strong AWS knowledge across core services: VPC, ALB, EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, Route53, RDS, ElastiCache, SNS/SQS, etc.
• Terraform expertise for infrastructure provisioning.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes (ideally EKS), including workload tuning, autoscaling, and troubleshooting under load.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Go preferred).
• Understanding of networking concepts: routing, DNS, load balancing.
• Familiarity with CDN/Edge (e.g., Fastly) and how they interact with backend systems.
• Comfortable debugging distributed systems issues across Edge, Network, Compute, and Storage layers.
• Experience with observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) and tools like Splunk and New Relic.
• Familiarity with SRE practices: SLO, SLA, etc.
• Excellent English communication skills, verbal and written (German not required).
• A collaborative mindset: you’re helpful, respectful, and enjoy sharing knowledge.
• Ability to context switch, work through ambiguity, and contribute across multiple workstreams.
• You lead by example, mentor others, and embrace a culture of safe experimentation and continuous improvement.

What’s In it For You?

• Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences.
• Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company.
• Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
• We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, education days, compassion days for loss, and volunteer days.
• Time off to care for and focus on your growing family.
• Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career.
• Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties.
• An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health.
• A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.

Who are we?

Contentful is the intelligent composable content platform that unlocks all of an organization’s digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences, making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform, Contentful Studio, and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI, empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration, speed, and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands, regions, and channels for organizations around the world, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500. Nearly 800 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver and distributed around the world.

Everyone is welcome here!

“Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!

If you need reasonable accommodations at any point during the application or interview process, please let your recruiting coordinator know.