Senior Cloud Engineer

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll combine advanced technical expertise with leadership skills to design, build, and operate secure, high-performance cloud infrastructure within a dynamic, 24×7 production environment. You'll set the technical bar for everything-as-code, drive resilience and observability, and mentor the engineers around you - ensuring technical excellence as we scale and launch new markets. Every day, your work will directly support millions of euros raised for charitable causes, creating a meaningful global impact. And every day at work, you'll be doing your part for all the charities we support., * Design, build, and operate secure, resilient cloud infrastructure on AWS - owning solutions end-to-end, from design through to long-term production operation.

• Drive continuous improvement by identifying bottlenecks, optimizing performance and reliability, and reducing Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) across 24×7 production.
• Set the technical bar for "everything-as-code" - Terraform, CI/CD, compliance- and runbooks-as-code - so change is safe, reviewable, and repeatable, writing infrastructure-as-code that serves as a reference for other engineers.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of excellence and setting best practices through reviews, pairing, and clear standards.
• Lead incident response and on-call for platform-owned services - running incidents calmly, preparing and testing runbooks, and turning each one into a lasting improvement.
• Partner with Architecture, Security, Development, and Operations to agree guardrails, set and protect SLOs, and deliver supportable, day-2-ready solutions.
• Help shape the technical roadmap, aligning cloud engineering priorities with the business and strengthening operational readiness ahead of new market launches.

• You hold a university degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, with at least 6+ years of experience in cloud or platform engineering.
• You've owned solutions end-to-end - designing, building, operating, and maintaining them in production over time - not only contributing to systems others architected.
• You have expertise in AWS (containers/ECS, IAM, VPC/networking, load balancing, CloudWatch) and expert-level Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.
• You have a strong understanding of cloud networking, DNS, disaster recovery, and the AWS Well-Architected principles, applied to large-scale, resilient systems.
• You're experienced with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab) and bring real-world incident and on-call experience in 24×7 production - calm under pressure, debugging complex issues at speed.
• You're a proactive problem-solver who excels at leading and mentoring engineers, and are comfortable driving technical decisions in collaboration with stakeholders.
• You communicate fluently in English and thrive in an international environment, bringing pragmatic solutions. (Dutch is a strong plus.)

• A monthly salary indication between €5.500,- and €7.200,- based on a 40-hour week and flexible working hours., A solid foundation

You can count on a good salary, a variable year-end bonus, and an excellent pension plan.

Development

No matter your role, your growth is a priority. Our Lottery Academy offers plenty of training. You get the chance to move up and work on international projects.

Work and travel

You work in our sustainable building near Amsterdam Zuid station. Plus, if you have a contract for more than 24 hours, you get an NS Business Card. That means free travel all over the Netherlands, even outside work hours!

Fun

We celebrate successes together with monthly drinks and parties. You'll learn more about our charity partners during inspiring talks and activities. And there's plenty more to enjoy working here at the Lotteries.

Sports and relaxation

Join pilates, kickboxing, or bootcamp. Or book a chair massage, physiotherapist- or vitality coach session, right at the office. After work, your VIP-KAART gives you free entry to 180 museums and discounts on fun outings.

Work-life balance

For a good balance, you get 28 vacation days per year based on a 40-hour workweek, plus flexible hours. Becoming a mum or dad? Congrats! During your maternity or parental leave, you keep 100% of your salary.

The Postcode Lottery Group is a marketing-driven international non-profit organisation. We operate lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener and healthier world. Our players win with their neighbours and generate money for charities together - it's a win-win! Since the start of the Lotteries in 1989, we have raised over €13.5 billion for thousands of good causes. Together with our players and 1,500 fellow team members in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Norway, you'll be helping to create a better world every day. This is what we call: The Power of Postcodes., The Postcode Lottery Group is a marketing-driven international non-profit organisation. We operate lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener and healthier world. Our players win with their neighbours and generate money for charities together - it's a win-win! Our purpose: a better world, for everyone Since our start in 1989, we have raised over €14.5 billion for thousands of charities. Together with our players and 1,500 fellow team members in the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany and Norway, you'll be helping to create a better world every day. Inclusion and equal opportunities People are at the heart of what we do. Whether it's our team, our players, or the thousands of good causes supported, our aim is to play our part in creating a fairer, more equal world. We are open to ideas and are committed to creating a culture that is inclusive, representative and celebrates diversity in everyone. But we are not perfect. We will always strive to do better - that's just who we are.