8am is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help build and maintain their next-generation platform. The role involves automating deployment, monitoring, and management for 100% AWS cloud-based infrastructure and developing internal tooling and automation. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of professional technical experience in software engineering, AWS cloud operations, or a related function, and experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional technical experience in software engineering, AWS cloud operations or a related function
- 3+ years of experience within a DevOps, INF or Platform Engineering role
- Experience implementing and maintaining kubernetes specific Ci/CD pipelines using CircleCI, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab, Azure Devops, etc.
- Experience creating internal tooling that supports developer productivity
- Experience designing and implementing automated development environments
- Documented experience provisioning and managing infrastructure in a public cloud environment such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure
- Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker, OCI, LXC and ability to administer, build and deploy images in an automated manner.
- Solid understanding of how a Kubernetes platform operates (service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing)
- Proficiency in at least one, ideally more of the following programming or scripting languages: Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript (NodeJS), Bash
- Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code to provision and maintain infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation
- Working understanding of relational database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Experience with Kafka on an MSK environment
- Experience with ElasticSearch
- Experience with generative and agentic AI in an infrastructure management and implementation perspective
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Benefits
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) and 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar
- Paid sick leave with additional support through the Czech social security system
- Maternity, paternity, and parental leave in line with Czech regulations, plus additional paid paternity leave from 8am
- Full statutory benefits, including public health insurance, social security, pension, and work accident coverage
- Possible performance bonus opportunities in the future and employee referral rewards
