Senior Cloud Engineer (Kubernetes)

Academic Key; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Learning budget

Sabbatical

Pension

Travel reimbursement

Monthly internet & phone allowance

Lunches at office

Job summary

Careerstrengo in Utrecht is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer (Kubernetes) to own and evolve our cloud platform. You’ll manage EKS clusters, migrate workloads from EC2 to Kubernetes, and enhance CI/CD, GitOps pipelines, and automation.

You’ll mentor engineers, publish clear docs, and help define engineering standards while collaborating with product and AI teams. Strong AWS, Terraform, and Linux skills required; excellent communication a must.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Kubernetes platform (EKS) including upgrades, security, autoscaling and core components.
• Improve deployment workflows to Kubernetes via GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service templates for developers.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

GitOps

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD

Linux

Observability

Tools

FluxCD

Karpenter

Envoy Gateway

KCL

Job description

Senior Cloud Engineer (Kubernetes)

Careerstrengo · Utrecht

We're a SaaS company innovating at the intersection of AI and scalable cloud infrastructure. Our platform empowers thousands of users daily, and we're scaling rapidly. As we grow, we are investing deeply into developer enablement, infrastructure automation, and reliability to support both velocity and resilience. About Trengo Welcome to the forefront of AI-driven communication. At Trengo, we’re redefining the industry by replacing repetitive work with meaningful conversations through our AI-powered customer engagement platform. We unify communication channels and leverage agentic AI to deliver proactive, human-like service, boosting efficiency for thousands of businesses worldwide. As a fast-moving Dutch scale-up, backed by a $36M Series A and an official WhatsApp Business Solutions Provider, we thrive on acceleration. Your expertise will drive growth: you’ll make a strategic impact, champion AI innovation, and help shape the product roadmap. You’ll do this alongside an international team guided by our Dynamic pace, Future-proof mindset, Ownership, and Open culture. The opportunity You'll work on the Kubernetes platform behind Trengo's customer engagement and AI products: EKS clusters managed through GitOps, plus the migration of our EC2-based workloads onto it. This is a platform engineering role within our cloud team. You'll work closely with the product and AI teams and the rest of the cloud team, so developers can ship safely and on their own. A big part of the role is bringing people along: helping developers understand and adopt the platform, and sharing what you know with the team. Our stack Kubernetes and GitOps: EKS, Karpenter, FluxCD, KCL, kro, Envoy Gateway (Gateway API) Cloud and IaC: AWS across multiple accounts (EC2, Lambda, ECR, Bedrock), Terraform, GitHub Actions Data: PlanetScale (MySQL), Aurora PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, ElastiCache (Valkey/Redis), Elastic Cloud, S3, SQS, MSK (Kafka) Networking and security: VPC, PrivateLink, Route 53, ALB, CloudFront, Cloudflare, IAM, KMS, external-secrets Observability: Grafana Cloud, VictoriaMetrics, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry What your role looks like Work on our EKS clusters and GitOps platform: upgrades, security, autoscaling and the core platform components. Improve how teams deploy to Kubernetes: the GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines and self-service templates developers use to ship their apps. Help migrate our core Laravel application from EC2 to Kubernetes, while keeping the existing EC2 fleet healthy. Manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform, and improve observability, alerting, security and cost across the platform. Bring engineers along: mentor them, pair on platform changes, write clear docs and help define our engineering standards. What you’ll bring We’d love to meet you if have: Production experience running Kubernetes and Docker-based workloads, including cluster upgrades, autoscaling and troubleshooting. Hands‑on experience deploying to Kubernetes with GitOps and CI/CD pipelines (we use FluxCD and GitHub Actions). 5+ years in Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering or DevOps roles, with deep AWS experience (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC networking). Strong Terraform and Linux skills, and a solid understanding of observability, secrets management and least‑privilege access. Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring engineers and bringing teams along when tools or ways of working change. Nice to have Experience with FluxCD, Envoy Gateway, Karpenter, kro, KCL or Kubernetes operators Migrating a monolith from VMs to Kubernetes Managed databases and search in production (MySQL/PlanetScale, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, Elasticsearch) Multi‑account AWS, Kafka, Cloudflare or AI/LLM workloads in production A background in security, compliance (e.g. GDPR) or incident response Our tech & AI mindset AI is not a buzzword at Trengo. It is part of how we build and operate. You’ll work with AI‑driven features, automation, data, or tools that help us move faster and smarter. We value thoughtful use of AI that creates real value for customers and teams. What’s in it for you? We believe in supporting you to perform at your best and grow with us:

• A key role where you’ll make a visible impact in a vibrant scale‑up environment.
• Hybrid working + 60 days per year to work abroad.
• Mental health support with free sessions from on‑demand psychologists (OpenUp).
• Learning budget + 2 extra days off to attend courses or conferences.
• 28 vacation days to rest, recharge, and travel.
• Travel reimbursement to our Utrecht HQ.
• Monthly internet & phone allowance to stay connected.
• Daily warm lunches prepared by our workplace experience team when you’re at our beautiful Utrecht office.
• Pension contribution to help you plan for the future.
• Sabbatical: After two years, enjoy up to three months away (unpaid) to rest, recharge, or see the world.

Our hiring process Introductory call – First conversation with our Talent team. Manager interview – Deep dive