Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS & Kubernetes

As a Cloud Engineer, you will help develop and operate the AWS-based platform that supports Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, observability and platform engineering across the company.

The role combines software engineering and hands-on platform operations. In addition to day-to-day responsibilities, you will contribute to cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with engineers from different domains on focused platform improvements.

Because the platform is business-critical, participation in an on-call rotation is part of the role.

When platform services run reliably and teams can deploy with confidence, you see the direct impact of your work., * Operate and further develop our EKS-based Kubernetes platform in AWS, with a strong focus on security, resilience, scalability and cloud infrastructure.

• Design and implement cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Collaborate closely with internal engineering teams to consult on cloud architecture, CI/CD, deployment workflows, observability and cost optimization.
• Support the future merge of Compute and Observability by helping shape reliable platform capabilities across infrastructure, observability and cloud platform engineering.
• Actively use, explore and improve AI tools and workflows to help us build our platform landscape in a smarter, more efficient and future-ready way.
• Take part in our on-call rotation to keep our business-critical platform stable and reliable.

• Professional experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and container technologies, especially Kubernetes and EKS.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code - ideally Terraform and Terragrunt feel like a natural part of your workflow.
• Experience with modern observability tools and concepts, plus a strong interest in secure, reliable and cost-optimized cloud solutions.
• AI competency: you are comfortable using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor AI or similar tools to improve your productivity and engineering workflows.
• You take ownership and independently drive topics forward.
• You enjoy tackling challenges actively and solving them pragmatically., * Deeper Kubernetes specialization in areas such as networking, observability, security or persistence.
• Hands-on experience with Grafana, Loki, Prometheus metrics or Distributed Tracing.
• Experience with CI/CD, deployment workflows and tools such as GitHub Actions, Flux, ArgoCD or similar.
• Experience with additional AWS compute technologies such as Serverless and ECS.
• Programming skills in languages such as Go or TypeScript and a strong interest in automation.
• A personal interest in cloud-native technologies, curiosity for new tools and concepts, and the intrinsic motivation to continuously learn and improve., * You want to further your education? We take your personal development goals seriously and, in addition to our idealo Learning Hub, eLearning offerings (e.g., Udemy), coaching & mediation, we also offer you the opportunity to benefit individually from additional learning and development budget.

idealo is a Berlin-based internet success story. Founded in 2000, we started with the mission of helping our users to make the best online buying decisions. 
Today, we are one of the leading product and price comparison platforms in Europe and one of the largest portals in the German e-commerce market. We achieved this by obtaining more than 2.5 million page impressions per day, 50.000 connected Online-Shops, and over 560 million product offers. With a strong focus on convenience, transparency, and technological expertise, we enable our partners to grow their business on idealo as a high-quality traffic and sales driver. 

As a member of our team, you can look forward to working with a large degree of freedom in an international and inspirational environment. We are located in the heart of Berlin but believe that we are happier and can work more effectively when the job fits our individual lives. That's why we offer our employees the freedom to choose their workplace. At idealo, we are convinced that flexibility is fundamental for hybrid working and offer permanent work from anywhere in Germany as well as temporary from abroad. 

We offer a unique idealo spirit. Your ideas are the driving force that moves our business forward. Not only our product portfolio is diverse, but also the people who work on it. We want you just as you are – regardless of origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or a degree of disability.