Staff/Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer (d/f/m) Berlin, Germany

Engineering · Development Senior (IC4) - Berlin, Germany

Your Role

As a part of the larger Engineering department, the Platform team plays a crucial role in enhancing emnify's competitive edge by improving developer experience to increase development efficiency and scale productivity.

You will join a growing team, fostering empathy and a collaboration mindset to ensure continuous improvement of development experience at emnify. The Platform team provides, in addition to the centrally managed infrastructure used by all the teams for observability and CI/CD, consultation and hands‑on support to the engineering teams.

As the authority in everything AWS, you’ll guide infrastructure engineers in AWS best practices, collaborate with the security team to ensure and improve our cloud infrastructure security, and implement new features and services in emnify AWS infrastructure. Your experience and advice may be the push that brings a project to the finish line.

This position is about 50% AWS Architect and 50% DevOps/SRE.

Your Impact

You’ll take part in designing, building, and maintaining the company’s AWS posture. Further, improve the developer experience of cross‑functional teams to run their services on AWS. Design and implement standardization and guard rails using AWS Organization and collaborate with the security team to harden our infrastructure and services.

You’ll spearhead infrastructure cost reduction and capacity planning initiatives across the engineering department in collaboration with the product teams and management.

You’ll continuously improve our CI/CD systems and concepts, enabling product teams to safely and efficiently deploy their applications on AWS managed services and Kubernetes.

You’ll collaborate with the product teams and take an active part in implementing new infrastructure and services providing valuable insights and implementation recommendations to ensure the successful and timely delivery of the projects.

What we expect

• Strong hands‑on experience architecting and operating an AWS Cloud organisation with 10+ accounts in production.
• Experience with cost‑optimization at large scale, multi‑region, and highly available architectures.
• Solid experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo suite) and strong experience managing EKS and microservices architectures.
• Strong fundamentals of networks, security, monitoring, and Linux systems administration.
• Knowledge of event‑driven architectures and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, EventBridge).
• The "AWS Solution Architect – Professional" certificate is a plus.

Team & structure

Our engineering team is made up of engineers primarily based in our Berlin and Würzburg offices. The team is organised into cross‑functional squads aligned to product domains, bringing together backend, frontend, and infrastructure expertise.

Business impact

Engineering builds and scales the platform that powers global IoT connectivity. Their work enables customers across industries—from aviation and robotics to smart cities and beyond—to connect, manage, and scale their devices reliably, while driving emnify’s growth and product innovation.

What you’ll work on

You’ll tackle complex technical challenges across distributed systems, connectivity, and APIs—building scalable solutions and shipping features that have real‑world impact at global scale.

Work flexibility

We’re a globally distributed team, making flexibility essential. Our roles are designed as hybrid, remote, or include relocation opportunities.

Time to recharge

Enjoy a generous time‑off policy starting at 30 days (location‑based) to recharge and focus on what matters most.

Learning support

Ongoing professional development opportunities through access to courses, certifications, or conferences.

Good vibes

Join regular company events and team outings to connect with colleagues, celebrate, and have fun. Our offices are dog‑friendly.

Equal Opportunity Statement

When you apply for a role at emnify, we’ll focus on your skills and what you can bring to the table, regardless of your nationality, ethnic or national origin, skin color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. If you have a disability, chronic illness, or are neurodiverse, please let us know so we can provide the support you need throughout the application process.