Senior AWS Platform Engineer — Fully Remote, Hands-on Ownership

Salve.Lab; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote position

Senior hands-on role

International engineering environment

Long-term opportunity

Job summary

Salve.Lab is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to design and evolve production cloud platforms used by engineering teams. You will work hands-on across AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Infrastructure as Code and platform engineering, taking ownership from design through production operation.

You’ll build reusable infrastructure and developer platforms, automate cloud provisioning and delivery, and help engineers deploy applications without needing deep infrastructure expertise.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on production experience with AWS and cloud platforms.
• Experience designing and operating Kubernetes/EKS for production workloads.
• Extensive Terraform experience for IaC and modular design.
• Hands-on GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or FluxCD.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve production infrastructure on AWS.
• Architect and operate Kubernetes/EKS platforms supporting production workloads.
• Build reusable infrastructure using Terraform and IaC principles.
• Develop scalable cloud foundations including networking, IAM, compute, storage and managed AWS services.
• Build and improve GitOps delivery workflows using ArgoCD or FluxCD.
• Design and maintain CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar tooling.
• Create reusable platform components, modules and automation that enable engineering teams to self-serve.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, security and performance.
• Implement observability across infrastructure and workloads using metrics, logs, traces and alerting.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking and applications.
• Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery and production readiness.
• Identify opportunities for cloud cost optimisation and more efficient resource utilisation.
• Work directly with software engineers, architects and technical stakeholders on infrastructure and platform decisions.
• Contribute to architecture decisions rather than simply implementing predefined infrastructure tickets.
• Use Python, Bash or another scripting language to automate operational and platform workflows.
• Help establish engineering standards and best practices across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and IaC.

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

ArgoCD

FluxCD

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Python

Bash

Go

Docker

Job description

Salve.Lab is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to design and evolve production cloud platforms used by engineering teams. You will work hands-on across AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Infrastructure as Code and platform engineering, taking ownership from design through production operation.

You’ll build reusable infrastructure and developer platforms, automate cloud provisioning and delivery, and help engineers deploy applications without needing deep infrastructure expertise.