Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (m/w/d)
HybridWildpoldsried, Bavaria, Germany
Job Summary
Design, develop, and implement platform solutions that enhance the reliability, security, and scalability of the Database Platform infrastructure. Provide technical leadership in AWS cloud infrastructure, networking, CI/CD, and security while mentoring team members to foster knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. Lead incident management and troubleshooting efforts, and define comprehensive observability solutions using metrics, logging, and tracing to ensure availability targets are met. Shape the team's strategy, roadmap, and architecture across multiple product teams in the construction, CAD, and ERP domains. Balance hands-on engineering with architectural responsibilities using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
Required Qualifications
- Provide technical leadership in AWS cloud infrastructure, networking, CI/CD, and security for cloud infrastructure solutions
- Mentor and coach team members
- Take an active role in shaping the team's strategy, roadmap, and architecture
- Lead and drive incident management and troubleshooting efforts
- Define, implement, and maintain comprehensive observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing)
- Strong hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating cloud infrastructure, preferably on AWS
- Solid experience with cloud infrastructure solutions such as ECS, EC2, AppSync, Amazon RDS, S3, or comparable technologies
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS)
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools
- Experience with multi-account AWS setups, landing zones, and governance models
- Proficiency in at least one programming language
- Good understanding of cloud networking concepts and security best practices
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or similar
- Ability to balance hands-on engineering with architectural and leadership responsibilities
Desired Qualifications
- Deep understanding of database internals, including performance tuning, high availability setups, backup and recovery, and replication strategies
- Practical experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar)
- Hands-on experience with AWS networking, including VPC design, subnetting, routing, security groups, NACLs, and hybrid connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect)
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