Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer to own SMPnet's cloud platform — both our AWS environment and our growing private cloud deployments for utility clients. Reporting to the Engineering Manager for Cloud & Edge, you will be the technical owner of cloud infrastructure: designing and operating the systems that underpin our products, and the go-to expert for cloud and infrastructure decisions within the team. We are looking for someone with the depth to own today's systems and the breadth of thinking to evolve them.

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AWS Cloud Ownership

• Own and operate SMPnet's AWS environment: account governance, IAM, security posture, cost optimisation, and infrastructure lifecycle.

• Design and deliver production-grade infrastructure using AWS CDK (TypeScript), covering services such as Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, VPC, and EventBridge.

• Build and maintain reusable CDK constructs and infrastructure patterns shared across the engineering team.

• Own observability and incident response: monitoring, alerting, and structured post-mortems (CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenSearch).

• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows for cloud-hosted services.

Private Cloud & On-Premise Deployments

• Design private cloud environments for TSO and DSO clients, where on-premise or air-gapped deployments are required.

• Manage bare-metal provisioning, hypervisor platforms (KVM-based, on-prem Kubernetes), and private network architecture.

• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code tooling for on-premise environments — cloud-init, Ansible, Terraform or Pulumi.

• Ensure deployment consistency between AWS and on-prem environments, supporting multi-tenant and multi-environment configurations.

Technical Ownership & Collaboration

• Take technical ownership of cloud team deliverables: contribute to sprint planning, participate in code and architectural reviews, and support junior engineers where needed.

• Maintain clear technical documentation: infrastructure diagrams, ADRs, runbooks, and operational procedures.

• Collaborate closely with backend, data, and edge engineers to ensure infrastructure meets product requirements.

Essential Skills and Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering with deep AWS expertise (IAM, Lambda, ECS, VPC, CDK in TypeScript).

• Solid private cloud and on-prem infrastructure experience: bare-metal provisioning, KVM/hypervisors, on-prem Kubernetes.

• Infrastructure-as-Code proficiency: AWS CDK (TypeScript), Terraform, or Pulumi.

• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash for automation and tooling.

• Good working knowledge of DevOps practices: CI/CD, GitOps, and container orchestration (Kubernetes / Docker).

• Solid networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, firewall rules, and overlay networking.

• Excellent written and spoken English.

Bonus Skills & Experience

• Experience with SEAPATH, OpenShift Virtualization, or KubeVirt in regulated or utility environments.

• Homelab or self-hosted infrastructure experience — a genuine signal of craft and curiosity.

• Awareness of database operations: InfluxDB or PostgreSQL in production (not required to own them).

• Familiarity with full-stack deployment pipelines — enough to collaborate confidently with backend and frontend engineers.

• Exposure to multi-tenant SaaS architecture patterns.

• Familiarity with utility, energy, or industrial IoT environments (OT/IT convergence).

• AWS Professional or Specialty certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).

What We Offer:

• A full-time position with a competitive salary.

• Benefits, including stock options, 28 days holidays (excluding statutory), private health insurance, €1,000 one-off training budget for professional development and wellness.

• A collaborative and innovative atmosphere with opportunities to impact the company's direction and growth.

How to Apply: Interested candidates should submit a CV and cover letter detailing their qualifications and experience relative to the requirements listed. Applications should be sent to jobs@smpnet.tech