Careerstrengo

Senior Cloud Engineer (Kubernetes)

Utrecht, Remote. Posted 22 days ago

The role

You will work on the Kubernetes platform behind customer engagement and AI products. This platform engineering role involves managing EKS clusters, improving GitOps workflows, and migrating EC2 workloads to Kubernetes.

What you will do

  • Work on EKS clusters and GitOps platform including upgrades, security, autoscaling and core platform components
  • Improve GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines and self-service templates for developers
  • Help migrate core Laravel application from EC2 to Kubernetes
  • Keep existing EC2 fleet healthy
  • Manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform
  • Improve observability, alerting, security and cost across the platform
  • Mentor engineers and pair on platform changes
  • Write clear docs and help define engineering standards

Required qualifications

  • Production experience running Kubernetes and Docker-based workloads, including cluster upgrades, autoscaling and troubleshooting
  • Hands-on experience deploying to Kubernetes with GitOps and CI/CD pipelines
  • 5+ years in Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering or DevOps roles
  • Deep AWS experience (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC networking)
  • Strong Terraform and Linux skills
  • Solid understanding of observability, secrets management and least-privilege access
  • Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring engineers

Nice to have

  • Experience with FluxCD, Envoy Gateway, Karpenter, kro, KCL or Kubernetes operators
  • Migrating a monolith from VMs to Kubernetes
  • Managed databases and search in production (MySQL/PlanetScale, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, Elasticsearch)
  • Multi-account AWS, Kafka, Cloudflare or AI/LLM workloads in production
  • A background in security, compliance (e.g. GDPR) or incident response

Benefits

  • Hybrid working
  • 60 days per year to work abroad
  • Mental health support with free sessions from on-demand psychologists (OpenUp)
  • Learning budget
  • 2 extra days off to attend courses or conferences
  • 28 vacation days
  • Travel reimbursement to Utrecht HQ
  • Monthly internet & phone allowance
  • Daily warm lunches
  • Pension contribution
  • Sabbatical: After two years, up to three months unpaid

Before you apply

  • Introductory call
  • Manager interview
  • Practical assignment
  • Team connection

About the company

Trengo is a fast-moving Dutch scale-up that provides an AI-powered customer engagement platform. They unify communication channels and leverage agentic AI to deliver proactive service.