Cloud Engineer

As a Cloud Engineer, you'll help build and maintain the technical backbone of our cloud infrastructure. You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining our GCP-based cloud platform, championing best practices in Kubernetes orchestration, and enforcing infrastructure-as-code standards through Terraform.

You'll be closely involved in shaping the direction of our platform and making decisions that have a direct impact on how we scale.

This role requires someone who is self-driven, comfortable with ambiguity, and eager to make confident, strategic infrastructure decisions. You'll play a key part in building a foundation that supports a rapidly growing SaaS platform., * Contribute to the design and management of our GCP infrastructure, helping with scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters for performance, observability, and automation
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and GitOps to maintain scalable, secure, and reproducible infrastructure across all environments
• Collaborate with backend, frontend, and QA engineers to support fast and safe software delivery
• Optimise cloud infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost
• Drive automation across CI/CD, deployments, monitoring, and incident response
• Own and maintain our CircleCI pipelines to ensure efficient, reliable build and deploy processes
• Work closely with senior engineers, learning from their expertise while contributing to improvements.
• Make architectural decisions independently and communicate clearly with the team

• 3+ years managing cloud infrastructure with hands-on experience in Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with managed Kubernetes (we use GKE) and container orchestration at scale
• Proficiency with Terraform, including writing modular, reusable code
• Experience with CircleCI or similar for CI/CD and a willingness to move to GitHub Actions
• Comfortable working in high-autonomy, high-trust startup environments
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or similar
• Clear communicator who can explain complex infrastructure decisions and tradeoffs.
• Strong grasp of security principles, networking, and IAM in cloud environments, * Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, or GitOps workflows
• Exposure to Laravel PHP or Node.js runtime environments
• Background in platform observability, SLOs, and incident response
• Experience building infrastructure from early-stage MVP to production-scale platforms

• High-trust environment with autonomy and influence

• Exposure to a modern, cloud-native tech stack

• Opportunity to grow into a Lead or Principal Infrastructure role

• Mission-driven team focused on real industry impact, * Competitive salary package

• Flexible office hours

• Lease bike plan

• Friday drinks & social events

• Fresh lunch and snacks

• 25 vacation days per year

• Central location in Amsterdam

• In-office gym

• Attractive pension plan

• Birthday off

We are a fast-moving, high-impact startup on a mission to transform the automotive repair ecosystem through smart, scalable, and cloud-native software. As we scale our infrastructure to support a growing customer base and platform ambitions, we're looking for a Cloud Engineer who thrives on ownership, embraces autonomy, and is unafraid to make bold, informed decisions.