Senior AWS Platform Engineer — Remote (EU) & Hands-on Ownership

Salve.Lab; Rotterdam; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Salve.Lab in the Netherlands is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to design, build and evolve production cloud platforms used by engineering teams at scale. This role is hands-on across AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, IaC and platform engineering, with ownership from design through production operation.

You will create reusable infrastructure, automate provisioning, improve reliability and observability, and enable engineers to deploy applications without deep infra expertise.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on production experience with AWS.
• Extensive Kubernetes/EKS design and operation.
• Terraform expertise and IaC mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design 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 tools such as 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 Infrastructure as Code.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Salve.Lab in the Netherlands is seeking a Senior AWS Platform Engineer to design, build and evolve production cloud platforms used by engineering teams at scale. This role is hands-on across AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, IaC and platform engineering, with ownership from design through production operation.

You will create reusable infrastructure, automate provisioning, improve reliability and observability, and enable engineers to deploy applications without deep infra expertise.