Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
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Job description
As a part of the larger Engineering department, the Platform team plays a crucial role in enhancing emnify competitive edge by improving developer experience to increase development efficiency and scale productivity.
You will join a growing team, fostering empathy and a collaboration mindset to ensure continuous improvement of development experience at emnify. The Platform team provides, in addition to the centrally managed infrastructure used by all the teams for observability and CI/CD, consultation and hands-on support to the engineering teams.
As the authority in everything AWS, you'll guide infrastructure engineers in AWS best practices, collaborate with the security team to ensure and improve our cloud infrastructure security, and implement new features and services in emnify AWS infrastructure. Your experience and advice may be the push that brings a project to the finish line.
This position is about 50% AWS Architect and 50% DevOps/SRE.
Your Impact:
You'll take part in designing, building, and maintaining the company's AWS posture. Further, improve the developer experience of cross-functional teams to run their services on AWS. Design and implement standardization and guard rails using AWS Organization and collaborate with the security team to harden our infrastructure and services.
You'll spearhead infrastructure cost reduction and capacity planning initiatives across the engineering department in collaboration with the product teams and management.
You'll continuously improve our CI/CD systems and concepts, enabling product teams to safely and efficiently deploy their applications on AWS managed services and Kubernetes.
You'll collaborate with the product teams and take an active part in implementing new infrastructure and services providing valuable insights and implementation recommendations to ensure the successful and timely delivery of the projects., The moment when you sign our contract your onboarding journey starts. Depending on your notice period, you can start with us 14 working days after signing. We are aiming to provide the best onboarding experience for you, your manager and your future team. All the interactions with you are fully automated and designed with Enboarder, our onboarding technology partner, helps us to create a high level of engagement until your start. For people with longer notice periods, expect us to reach out to you 1 month before you start. Your talent advisor will stay in touch with you until then.
We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for your application, regardless to your nationality, ethnic or national origin, skin color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. Your qualification and value add are the deciding factors!
In case you are living with disabilities, chronic illness or neurodiversity please inform us, to provide you with the proper assistance in the application process.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Ruby on Rails?, Strong hands-on experience architecting and operating AWS cloud environments in production.
Experience with cost-optimization at large scale, multi-region, and highly available architectures.
Solid experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo suite)
Strong experience managing EKS and microservices architectures.
Expertise in monitoring, alerting, observability (metrics, logs, traces), and performance tuning.
Strong fundamentals of networks, security, and Linux systems administration.
Knowledge of event-driven architectures and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, EventBridge).
Nice to have:
TOGAF, ISC2, or AWS SA Professional certifications are a big plus
Experience in telecom / connectivity domains: signaling systems (e.g., SS7, SIGTRAN, Diameter), roaming, core networks.