Cloud Platform Engineer

Digital. Inspiring. Unique. Tchibo is one of the ten largest eCommerce companies in Germany. We could never have attained this standing without the courage to constantly rethink the old ways. In the digital world at Tchibo, we work with the latest technologies to develop sustainable and effective solutions. Do you want to help us do this? Enrich our team with your fresh ideas! This position is located in Bucharest, Romania. Environment: Cloud DevOps team managing multiple projects on GCP and AWS cloud platform for several applications and services, always on the hunt to integrate state-of-the-art solutions. Technologies: GCP (GKE, VM, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC, Load Balancing, DNS, Secret Manager, Filestore), AWS (EC2, Aurora, RDS, S3, AWS Backup, Lambda Functions, Log Explorer), Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, Helm, Flux, Datadog Languages: English, German is a plus General Tasks: -Build, operate and further develop the cloud platform for Tchibo on GCP or AWS, incl. supporting tooling like GitLab or Datadog -Manage infrastructure for several applications, together with external app teams -Maintain and improve infrastructure with Terraform (using centrally managed modules and pipelines) -Building and Operating CI/CD Pipelines for Applications (GitLab CI/CD) -Management of Kubernetes resources (e.g. Deployments, RBAC, Ingress, etc.) and Helm releases with Flux and Kustomize -Integration and use of core platform components (e.g., Logging, Secrets, IAM, VPC, DNS) -Application of secure defaults (IAM, secrets, network, TLS, policies) -Support in day-to-day operations (e.g. incident response, infrastructure maintenance, performance and costs analysis) -Collaborate with the centralized platform team (e.g., to use shared Terraform modules and policies) Requirements -3-5+ years of experience in Cloud DevOps environment -In-depth knowledge of GCP (GKE, VM, CloudRun, IAM, VPC, DNS, Load Balancing, Secret Manager) and AWS (EC2, RDS, Aurora, DNS) -Experience using Terraform in production: modular repositories, state management, etc. -Solid knowledge of Kubernetes -Experience in building and operating CI/CD pipelines with GitLab -Experience with scripting languages: Bash, Python, Golang is an advantage -Good understanding of networking -Familiarity with Observability tools (e.g., Datadog, GCP Monitoring/Logging) -Very good knowledge of English Nice to have -Experience with GitOps tools (Flux) -Knowledge of Helm/Kustomize -Experience with SRE practices (SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets) -Basic knowledge of FinOps or cost optimization -Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (e.g., CIS Benchmarks, PolicyController)