Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Remote

Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Senior

Tech Stack: Kubernetes, Pulumi/Terraform, Docker, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, Helm,Keycloak, AWS/Azure/GCP/DigitalOcean, CI/CD

About the Project

We are building federated dataspaces inspired by initiatives such as Catena-X, Eclipse Tractus-X, and Gaia-X. Dataspaces will enable secure, standards-compliant, and sovereign data exchange across industrial and regulated ecosystems.

Our infrastructure will be designed to be provider-agnostic, supporting deployment across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Digital Ocean. We aim to abstract the complexity of dataspace participation and deliver a seamless experience to data providers and consumers.

This is not limited to connector development. The scope includes the full architecture of the dataspace:

• Identity and trust management (DID, DAPS, OAuth2)

• Semantic metadata modelling and knowledge graphs

• Policy-based access control and contract negotiation

• Federated service discovery and data catalogues

• Data governance, auditability, and lifecycle management

You will be part of a cross-functional team contributing to an ambitious and highly impactful infrastructure platform from the ground up.

Role Overview

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing and operating a platform-agnostic infrastructure layer that powers the dataspace offering. You will work with modern infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools: Pulumi or Terraform to provision, manage, and scale Kubernetes environments and underlying services in a secure, automated, and auditable way.

You will collaborate with Engineering, DevSecOps and QA teams to implement GitOps pipelines, monitoring systems, and robust cloud-native practices that guarantee performance and reliability across providers.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain multi-cloud infrastructure using Pulumi or Terraform

• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across AWS, Azure, GCP, and DigitalOcean.

• Design GitOps-enabled CI/CD workflows using tools like ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or GitLab

• Build and deploy Helm-based services and secure Docker containers

• Integrate identity and access control systems (Keycloak, OAuth2, DAPS)

• Set up and maintain observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK)

• Implement backup, disaster recovery, and HA strategies across multiple clouds

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, upgrades, and scaling using IaC

• Ensure compliance, logging, and governance support for dataspace interoperability

• Collaborate on design reviews, runbooks, and deployment best practices

Required Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in DevOps or infrastructure engineering

• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and containerisation

• Proficient in Pulumi or Terraform for infrastructure-as-code

• Proven ability to work in multi-cloud or hybrid environments

• Strong Linux skills and understanding of cloud networking and security

• Hands-on experience with GitOps and CI/CD pipelines

• Familiarity with monitoring/logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

• Experience with OAuth2, Keycloak, and secure identity integration

Nice to Have

• Experience in federated data systems or dataspace components (EDC, Gaia-X, Catena-X)

• Experience with decentralised identity systems (e.g.,walt.id | Powerful digital identity and wallet infrastructure, verifiable credentials)

• Experience with S3-compatible storage, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB

• Open-source contributions in DevOps, IaC, or cloud-native tooling

• Familiarity with infrastructure compliance, audit logging, or zero-trust practices