Cloud Engineer

We at sevdesk

As an intuitive cloud accounting software, we empower founders, self-employed individuals, and small business owners to focus on what truly matters. Our product offers them a smart accounting tool to save time in their daily activities. As a company, we aim for excellence, continuously expand our horizons, and strive for daily improvement of our product and our daily work life. In pursuit of these goals, we rely on our strong culture, innovative spirit, and unwavering passion. In the future, we hope to count you among our dedicated team members.

Your mission
As a Cloud Engineer (m/f/x), you will play a pivotal role in our dynamic Platform Team, designing, implementing and managing our cloud infrastructure. Your deep expertise with AWS and strong understanding of Kubernetes will ensure that our platform is robust, scalable, secure and cost-efficient, empowering our engineers to optimize their development cycles.

Here's how you'll make an impact:

• Cloud Architecture and Management: Design, deploy, and manage Cloud infrastructure on AWS to support our applications and services. Identify opportunities for system improvements, cost savings, and performance enhancements.

• Kubernetes Orchestration: Implement and manage Kubernetes clusters to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability of containerized applications.

• Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain IaC scripts (Terraform) to automate cloud resource provisioning and management.

• Monitoring and Logging: Set up and manage monitoring and logging solutions to ensure the health, performance, and security of our cloud infrastructure (CloudWatch, New Relic).

• Security and Compliance: Implement best practices for cloud security, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.

• Collaboration and Support: Work closely with development teams to understand their needs and provide cloud-based solutions as a platform that expedites their release processes and enhance application quality. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.

Your Qualification:

• Minimum of 4 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Engineering (with a strong focus on AWS).

• Comprehensive expertise in operations, networking and in-depth knowledge with Kubernetes and MySQL.

• Advanced proficiency in Infrastructure as Code and Automation (e.g., Terraform, GitLab CI and GitHub Actions, etc.)

• Problem-Solving, Communication, and Product Mindset: proactive and analytical approach, strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts, understand the needs of our internal users and advocate for our platform.

• Passion for learning and knowledge sharing are rooted in your way of working, and you love to collaborate and contribute to a positive team culture in a remote environment.

Drive Impact: Make meaningful contributions and help move initiatives forward across teams. Your input will be valued, and your work will have a direct influence on sevdesk's success.

Empowered Ownership: take charge of your work and projects with the expectation of making decisions independently, supported by a team that's there when you need guidance.

Competitive Compensation: Includes a company pension scheme to reward your contributions.

Time to Recharge: 30 vacation days, 3 additional days for social engagement, plus 30 Workation days to work from anywhere in the EU.

Flexible Work Environment: We believe in working where you're most productive, whether that's at home or in the office. Our hybrid approach balances flexibility with in-person collaboration, fostering trust and strong teamwork when we come together.

Comprehensive Benefits: learning budget, bike leasing, monthly voucher of choice (Amazon, IKEA, Car Sharing, …), Amazon book flat, corporate discounts and more.

Team Vibes: Enjoy regular team offsites and quarterly events packed with networking and fun

For more insights, visit us on Instagram

Contact:   Marc Riehle

• Germany

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