Senior Cloud Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Cloud Engineer you are part of the Cloud Operations team. You take ownership of operating and evolving AWS-centric infrastructure — from EKS clusters to EC2-based workloads — ensuring stability, scalability, and operational excellence for ERP and business application environments. Secondary responsibilities include Azure AKS environments.

Key responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and evolve AWS EKS clusters running containerized workloads
• Manage and operate AWS EC2 instance fleets running ERP and business applications (Windows & Linux)
• Manage AWS core infrastructure: VPC, networking, storage (EBS/S3), load balancing, Route 53
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, patching, and performance across all AWS workloads
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) for EKS clusters, EC2 fleets, and supporting services
• Leverage AWS-native tooling: Systems Manager, Patch Manager, Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, IAM
• Operate Azure AKS clusters for group company workloads
• Manage application deployments, rolling updates, and release processes
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive permanent fixes
• Automate operational processes (patching, scaling, backup, deployment pipelines) for EKS and EC2

About you

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years in cloud engineering/operations with strong AWS focus
• Deep expertise across core AWS services (EC2, EKS, VPC, RDS, S3, ELB, IAM, Route 53, Systems Manager, CloudWatch)
• 3+ years hands-on experience operating EKS in production (cluster lifecycle, networking, RBAC, resource management, troubleshooting)
• Proven experience managing EC2 instance fleets (AMI management, Auto Scaling, patching, monitoring, Windows & Linux)
• Proficiency in Terraform for AWS infrastructure provisioning
• Advanced Docker knowledge, Helm charts, Kubernetes operators
• Solid understanding of AWS networking (VPC, subnets, security groups, Transit Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect)
• Proficient in Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Experience with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or comparable tooling