Senior Cloud Engineer (mfd)

Youll join a small high-trust Platform Engineering team (six engineers and a team lead) that runs HomeToGos cloud platform across AWS (primary) and GCP. As a Senior Cloud Engineer you own load-bearing platform initiatives end to end and are accountable for production outcomes.

In your first 612 months you will:

• Owna major platform migration end to end from design through production cutover to retiring the legacy system it replaces.

• Deliverthe DevOps work behind revenue- and compliance-critical launches on hard deadlines.
  Advanceour GitOps ingress and infrastructure-as-code modernization cutting configuration drift and manual toil.

• Strengthenobservability and incident response closing alerting gaps and running blameless postmortems.

• Settechnical direction under ambiguity across a broad legacy-heavy stack andraisethe teams capability through proactive knowledge-sharing and mentoring.

• Partner with newly acquired teams as their dedicated DevOps contact and share the weekly working-hours on-duty support rotation.

We assume senior-level technical fluency as a given in AWS (primary) and GCP; Kubernetes/EKS; Terraform & Terragrunt with Atlantis; ArgoCD (GitOps) and Envoy Gateway; Prometheus/Grafana and OpenSearch; Okta and Vault; a range of datastores; and an AI-assisted/agentic development workflow.

• Drive loosely-defined ambiguous initiatives to a shipped outcome without waiting for a spec or to be told the next step.

• Ownproduction outcomes end to end step up when something breaks lead the fix and turn it into a blameless postmortem the team learns from.

• Shareknowledge by default document decisions teach teammates and deliberately avoid becoming a single point of knowledge.

• Coordinateacross teams and stakeholders align competing priorities negotiate trade-offs and rebuild unclear ownership boundaries.

• Decideunder uncertainty make and defend calls on what to standardize keep or retire when theres no obviously right answer and change course when the evidence does.

• Askopenly when you dont know something treating let me find out / who knows this as a strength not a gap to hide.

• Adopt new ways of working fast especially AI-assisted / agentic development and bring others along with you.

• AI-first culture:Leverage a world-class AI ecosystem with Google Enterprise Slack AI and SOTA model access via Copilot Claude or LiteLLM. By using our custom agents for automation and knowledge management youll become a first-class adopter of the AI workflows defining industry best practices.

• Flexible hybrid work: Work remotely up to 50% of the year including up to 63 days of work from anywhere within the EU and UK.*

• Competitive compensation: Market-aligned salary plus stock options for eligible roles.

• Generous time off:27 vacation days to start increasing with tenure to up to 32 days.

• Dog-friendly offices: Bring your four-legged friend along our offices welcome well-behaved dogs.

• Relocation & visa support: Full visa sponsorship and relocation support for international hires joining our Berlin office.*

• Growth & development: German classes masterclasses and cross-team mentoring.

• Commuter & mobility perks:Monthly subsidy for the Deutschland-Ticket and tax-advantaged bike leasing via salary conversion.

• Wellbeing & fitness:Mental health support resources and subsidized sports memberships.

• Travel & lifestyle perks:Exclusive discounts via HomeToGoFriends Travel Industry Card deals and 20% off Union Berlin fan gear.

• Climate responsibility:We practice responsible stewardship daily and embed ESG at the heart of our operations while collaborating with Plan A to stay accountable for our carbon footprint and environmental impact.

*Certain conditions apply.

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