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# Cloud Engineer (Kubernetes)

- **Company:** Trengo
- **Location:** Utrecht, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Linux, DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Network Security, Laravel, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Autoscaling, Amazon ElastiCache, Grafana, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Apache Kafka, Route53, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** October 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.nl/job/nld6be3e1e2422f3e37d1986ecd431558a/eaa

## About the Role

Production experience running Kubernetes and Docker-based workloads, including cluster upgrades, autoscaling and troubleshooting.
Hands-on experience deploying to Kubernetes with GitOps and CI/CD pipelines (we use FluxCD and GitHub Actions).
5+ years in Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering or DevOps roles, with deep AWS experience (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC networking).
Strong Terraform and Linux skills, and a solid understanding of observability, secrets management and least-privilege access.
Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring engineers and bringing teams along when tools or ways of working change.

## Description

You'll work on the Kubernetes platform behind Trengo's customer engagement and AI products: EKS clusters managed through GitOps, plus the migration of our EC2-based workloads onto it. This is a platform engineering role within our cloud team. You'll work closely with the product and AI teams and the rest of the cloud team, so developers can ship safely and on their own. A big part of the role is bringing people along: helping developers understand and adopt the platform, and sharing what you know with the team.
Our stack
Kubernetes and GitOps: EKS, Karpenter, FluxCD, KCL, kro, Envoy Gateway (Gateway API)
Cloud and IaC: AWS across multiple accounts (EC2, Lambda, ECR, Bedrock), Terraform, GitHub Actions
Data: PlanetScale (MySQL), Aurora PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, ElastiCache (Valkey/Redis), Elastic Cloud, S3, SQS, MSK (Kafka)
Networking and security: VPC, PrivateLink, Route 53, ALB, CloudFront, Cloudflare, IAM, KMS, external-secrets
Observability: Grafana Cloud, VictoriaMetrics, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry
What your role looks like
Work on our EKS clusters and GitOps platform: upgrades, security, autoscaling and the core platform components.
Improve how teams deploy to Kubernetes: the GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines and self-service templates developers use to ship their apps.
Help migrate our core Laravel application from EC2 to Kubernetes, while keeping the existing EC2 fleet healthy.
Manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform, and improve observability, alerting, security and cost across the platform.
Bring engineers along: mentor them, pair on platform changes, write clear docs and help define our engineering standards.