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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS & Kubernetes - **Company:** idealo internet GmbH - **Location:** Berlin, Germany - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Github, Software Tools, Cloud Services, TypeScript, Cloud Platform System, Delivery Pipeline, Containerization, Kubernetes, Terraform, GPT, Dynatrace, Serverless Computing - **Published:** June 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.idealo.com/o/cloud-platform-engineer-aws-kubernetes-mfd ## About the Role * 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. ## Description 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. ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [The Power of Purpose: Unlocking Potential and Innovation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1110-the-power-of-purpose-unlocking-potential-and-innovation) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [ Evaluating AI models for code comprehension](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1462-evaluating-ai-models-for-code-comprehension) - [It's Not Vibe Coding If You Know What You're Doing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100119-it-s-not-vibe-coding-if-you-know-what-you-re-doing) - [Bringing AI Model Testing and Prompt Management to Your Codebase with GitHub Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1536-bringing-ai-model-testing-and-prompt-management-to-your-codebase-with-github-models) ## Related Articles - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Best Coding Boot Camps in Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/237-best-coding-boot-camps-in-germany) - [Finding Jobs in Germany](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/375-finding-jobs-in-germany) - [System change: restart as developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/39-system-change-restart-as-developer)