Senior Cloud Engineer

Job description:

Location: Czech Republic (Prague)

Work model: Hybrid (3 days/week in the office, up to 2 days home office possible)

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team and take ownership of our cloud architecture, automation, and deployment pipelines. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud environments while enabling engineering teams to ship faster and more reliably.

Your main responsibilities

• Design and manage AWS cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, security, and performance.
• Write and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, ensuring environments are reproducible, version-controlled, and well-documented.
• Own and improve GitLab CI/CD pipelines, working closely with development teams to streamline build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and establish best practices across the organization.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions.
• Proactively identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks and security gaps.

Your profile

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or a related infrastructure role.
• Deep hands-on expertise in AWS – including EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and Lambda.
• Proficiency in Terraform, including module design, state management, and environment promotion.
• Solid experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash or Python.
• Familiarity with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work autonomously and take ownership of complex problems.
• Willingness to take on on-call duties (approx. one week per month)

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS security tooling: GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config.
• Knowledge of observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• AWS Solutions Architect or HashiCorp Terraform Associate certification.
• Experience with multi-account AWS Organizations setups.
• Knowledge of Azure.