Cloud Backend Engineer

As a Cloud Backend Engineer, you will dive deep under the hood of our hyper-scale public cloud backend. Sitting at the intersection of physical hardware, software-defined networking, and infrastructure automation, you will be key to keeping our core platform secure, resilient, and highly innovative.

• Platform Evolution: Solve complex infrastructure and backend challenges in the daily operations of a massive public cloud environment.
• Hands-on Systems Engineering: Work directly at the console, bridging the gap between high-level cloud services and underlying hardware.
• Infrastructure Reliability: Design, build, and maintain robust monitoring and quality assurance pipelines to guarantee continuous service excellence.
• End-to-End Automation: Consistently automate deployment, maintenance, and scaling tasks using industry-standard infrastructure automation frameworks.
• Collaborative Engineering: Thrive within an open, trusting, and highly collaborative team of engineering specialists who actively support one another.

• Education: Completed university studies in Computer Science, Engineering, a related scientific field, or equivalent practical and professional training.
• Experience: 5-7 years of hands-on professional IT experience, with a sharp focus on modern cloud-native architectures.
• Deep Network Expertise: Outstanding, practical knowledge of Software-Defined Networks (SDN), routing, firewalls, and physical network topologies.
• Systems Depth: Advanced proficiency in Linux environments and network-related services.
• Automation Focus: Proven, extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management automation frameworks.
• Agile Mindset: Comfortable navigating agile development and operational environments with a strong customer-first perspective.
• Analytical Rigor: The capability to critically evaluate complex technical architectures and design innovative, creative solutions to operational bottlenecks.
• Location & Compliance: You must live and work within the European Union to fulfill our customers’ strict data privacy and security requirements.
• Language: Fluency in written and spoken English and fluency in the language of the country of residence, except German, which would be considered as an advantage., * Hands-on engineering experience within the OpenStack ecosystem.
• Active programming experience or a track record of contributions within the open-source software community.

Our client is a leading European provider of integrated communication and technology solutions. The company drives digital innovation in the areas of connectivity, security, and cloud, and supports customers worldwide in their digital transformation. Driven by strict DevSecOps principles, our mission is to deliver a secure, highly resilient, and innovative cloud ecosystem that meets the highest European security and data privacy standards. We operate with lean structures, agile methodologies, and a highly collaborative, cross-border team dynamic. If you are a cloud evangelist who thrives on solving the complex engineering challenges of hyper-scale platforms, we offer a unique opportunity to see how a massive cloud ecosystem works “under the hood”.