Senior Cloud Engineer (f/m/d)

Trusted Shops SE

11h • Hybrid

About The Position

Trusted Shops creates digital trust between people, businesses, and AI agents. With around 700 colleagues across Europe, the company supports more than 30,000 online shops and over 50 million consumers. The Senior Cloud Engineer will join the Legal Tech Services Team in the Business Domain, which builds products that help online businesses stay legally compliant and protected through legal texts, compliance services, and expert support.

In this role, you will design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. Working closely with software engineers, a Product Manager, and an Agile Coach, you will help shape the cloud platform, enable development teams through automation and Infrastructure as Code, and contribute to a reliable, observable, and cost-efficient cloud environment. The role is based in Cologne with a hybrid arrangement or in Berlin remotely, and is a permanent, full-time position.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating AWS cloud infrastructure, such as ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, and SQS.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code expertise, ideally with Terraform.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation solutions, ideally with CircleCI.
• Solid scripting or software development skills in Bash, TypeScript, or Python.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted and agentic engineering tools in DevOps workflows, and the curiosity and ability to evaluate emerging AI capabilities.
• Experience with containerized environments using Docker and Amazon ECS.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability concepts, such as CloudWatch and Instana, including troubleshooting across applications and infrastructure.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and AWS governance and FinOps.
• Experience working with externally hosted environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and continuously improve scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Contribute to the introduction, deployment, and operation of new services and infrastructure capabilities throughout their lifecycle.
• Build and maintain reusable Infrastructure-as-Code components with Terraform, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling, primarily based on CircleCI.
• Help establish and evolve standards for monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability to support reliable and efficient operations.
• Support cloud governance, AWS resource lifecycle management, cloud cost optimization (FinOps), and cloud security best practices.
• Apply AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices to improve automation, delivery speed, and operational efficiency.
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external hosting providers to ensure reliable operations and maintain supporting infrastructure.

Benefits

• Hybrid work combining flexible remote work with team time in the Cologne office; on-site days depend on location.
• Workation: temporarily work from a destination of your choice within the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, or Norway.
• 28 vacation days.
• 2.5 additional days off at Christmas, New Year's Eve, and Carnival.
• Buddy program with an experienced trustee.
• Individual learning and development opportunities, including internal and external trainings and e-learning.
• Team and unit events.
• Health Pass providing free online and offline sports, fitness, and health courses.
• Permanent contract.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed