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