Staff Cloud Operations Engineer
Candidates for this role may be located in Portugal, Spain, Poland or IrelandFull-TimeStaff
Salary75,000 - 85,000 EUR per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering
- Required Skills
- AWSKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusLinuxTerraformSaaS
Requirements
- 5+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering, with deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred)
- Strong Kubernetes experience: cluster design, operators, controllers, and multi-cluster management
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
- GitOps expertise: ArgoCD, Flux, or similar; experience with ApplicationSets and complex deployment patterns
- Deep Linux and networking knowledge
- Experience with distributed systems: Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience debugging complex distributed systems
- Experience with cloud security, compliance (SOC2, ISO27001), and secure-by-design practices
- Excellent communication skills for working across time zones and with distributed teams
- Self-directed with a track record of owning problems end-to-end
- Ability to participate in the teams on-call rotation
Responsibilities
- Design and implement multi-cluster, multi-region Kubernetes deployments using EKS, GKE, and AKS.
- Take end-to-end ownership of production infrastructure.
- Build and maintain Terraform modules for complex infrastructure patterns.
- Design and optimize ArgoCD ApplicationSets and Helm chart architectures.
- Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations.
- Build and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and custom tooling.
- Implement security controls and compliance frameworks across cloud infrastructure.
- Mentor engineers and establish best practices.
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