Engineering Manager (AWS cloud)
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Description
- Leading and mentoring a cloud engineering team of 5-7 cloud engineers
- Providing direct line management, coaching, and professional development for a team of cloud engineers and migration specialists
- Fostering a high-performing, technically excellent team focused on secure and scalable migrations
- Navigating uncertainty by providing clarity to the team and managing the emotional health of the organization during high-pressure delivery cycles
- Driving recruitment, onboarding, and performance management for the team
- Balancing focus between people management and project delivery
- Functioning as the technical peer to Solutions Architects, providing a leadership perspective on architectural decisions and project strategy
- Owning the end-to-end solution as a key decision-maker and aligning customer needs with technical outcomes
- Facilitating customer workshops, refinement sessions, and planning discussions to define clear delivery goals
- Architecting and implementing complex AWS infrastructures and zero-day compliant landing zones
- Reviewing and remediating customer solutions using the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Driving migrations from on-premises and other cloud providers into AWS
- Designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments
- Defining infrastructures as code with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
- Staying up to date with AWS innovations and driving SnapSoft’s AWS Partner journey by contributing to Competency and Service Delivery Programs
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 2+ years of experience leading technical teams with ability to manage senior technical engineers
- Experience with time-tracking systems, capacity planning, and formal performance review frameworks
- Client facing skills for driving refinements and planning sessions with the customer
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure using AWS
- In-depth knowledge of standard AWS services such as VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, IAM, SNS, SQS, API Gateway, EKS, CloudFront, EFS/EBS, SecurityHUB, Guard Duty, CloudWatch, AWS Application Migration Service, KMS, PCA and similar
- 3+ years of experience in at least one Infrastructure as a Code technology like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, AWS CDK or similar
- 3+ years of experience in building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket or similar)
- 2+ years of experience in creating and running container-based applications using Docker and Kubernetes/EKS
- Strong understanding of networking concepts and related AWS Services
- Strong understanding of security concepts
- Fluent English and Hungarian knowledge
- Excellent problem-solving skills for use-case-specific architecture design and implementation
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with ability to lead teams and engage customers effectively
- AWS Professional/Specialty Certification
- Company culture based on autonomy and accountability
- Flexible working hours
- Cool office with great location in Budapest, nearby Deak Ferenc Square / Astoria
- Macbook for efficient daily tasks
- Company-sponsored technical trainings
- Company-sponsored trips to relevant professional conferences
- Medicare
- AYCM SportPass contribution, yoga at the office, SnapSoft football
- Cocktail party, team buildings, SnapSoft library