Cloud Platform Engineer (m|f|d)

Engineering teams across idealo rely on cloud infrastructure, self-service developer tooling and platform products every day.

Cloud Platform provides a scalable, secure and cost-efficient cloud foundation that enables more than 20 teams to move fast and focus on what they do best.

The position is available in full or part-time.

About your new role

As a Cloud Engineer (m/f/d), you will help build and evolve the infrastructure and automation that power our platform. Your work will shape how teams across idealo provision cloud resources, route traffic and work with shared platform capabilities through reliable self-service products built on well-designed infrastructure.

In this role, you will combine deep infrastructure engineering with a strong platform mindset, creating solutions that balance autonomy, governance, scalability and operational excellence. You will work on foundational systems with company-wide impact and a high degree of technical ownership.

Your responsibilities

• Design and manage our AWS multi-account environment, including account lifecycle management and governance mechanisms such as Control Tower and Service Control Policies.

• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt and AWS CDK, with a focus on reusable modules and scalable platform foundations.

• Develop and operate self-service platform products that enable engineering teams to provision and manage cloud resources independently.

• Own and evolve key networking capabilities including VPC design, DNS management, IP address management and CDN integrations.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform usability, reliability and operational efficiency through reusable solutions and automation.

• Take ownership of platform services, contribute to engineering standards and help drive long-term maintainability across the cloud landscape.

Skills & Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in a multi-account environment, including Organizations, Control Tower, IAM and Identity Center.

• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform and Terragrunt, including experience building reusable modules and managing infrastructure across environments.

• Practical programming experience with Go, TypeScript, Node.js or Python, including automation tooling, CLI development, Lambda functions or cloud-native services.

• Solid networking fundamentals, including VPC design, subnetting, DNS, CDN concepts and cross-account connectivity patterns.

• Strong English communication skills, allowing you to collaborate effectively with engineers and stakeholders across the organization.

• Practical interest in AI-powered platform engineering and infrastructure workflows. Familiarity with concepts such as agents, tool integration, context management and workflow automation.

  Nice to have

• German language skills.

• Experience with Kubernetes and GitOps tooling, for example EKS and Argo CD.

• Familiarity with managed data services such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, Aurora or DocumentDB.

• Exposure to FinOps practices, cloud cost optimization or security-related services such as AWS WAF, Firewall Manager, Private CA or OIDC federation.

You don’t tick every box? No worries! We hire people, not checklists – and value motivation and growth.

At idealo you can expect

• You want to further your education? We take your personal development goals seriously and, in addition to our idealo Learning Hub, eLearning offerings (e.g., Udemy), coaching & mediation, we also offer you the opportunity to benefit individually from additional learning and development budget.

• And what about the office? Our office in the heart of Berlin offers free organic breakfast, excellent free lunch (vegan and vegetarian), as well as free coffee, lemonades and after-work beer, in addition to the "standard foosball". It also has a fabulous rooftop terrace with view of the whole of berlin where you can network with colleagues from our group of companies.

• In need of additional support in any areas of your life? We offer free counseling and support in all areas of life (professional, private, family, health, etc.) in cooperation with the pme-Familienservice.

• You want full flexibility on your way to work and beyond? No problem with a job bike or Deutschlandticket - and it's environmentally friendly, too!

• Want to keep yourself fit? We offer many different fitness and sports options, such as an Urban Sports or Gympass membership, to suit your personal needs.

• And what else is there? Of course, success must be celebrated! In addition to team events, you can also expect big company events and other moments of organized connection with others in the company and your team throughout the year!

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