About the role

As Cloud & DevOps Engineer, you'll join a growing team to help build and scale the infrastructure that supports our global coffee-focused applications from bean to cup. Our systems collect, process, and analyze data across roasting, brewing, and environmental metrics to help users improve quality and efficiency.

As part of the Cloud Engineering team, you'll lead initiatives to enhance our infrastructure, automation, and systems. You’ll collaborate closely with software developers to solve challenges and implement scalable solutions using Terraform and AWS. Creative thinking and teamwork are central to how we work.

We're looking for someone with experience in AWS infrastructure, strong collaboration and troubleshooting skills, and a good grasp of software development best practices. Passion, curiosity, and a willingness to learn are just as important as technical skills.

What you'll do

• Design and implement a scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure for our services in AWS
• Improve the automation of our software development lifecycle
• Manage the configuration of cloud services using infrastructure as code
• Perform research and make an in-depth analysis of infrastructure projects
• Keep our environments and services up-to-date and running smoothly
• Continuously improve and refine deployment strategy (CI/CD)
• Improve our monitoring and alerting strategy for our services
• Utilize your experience and problem-solving skills to investigate and resolve production issues
• Incident and event response, together with the software engineers

Our technology stack

• Amazon Web Services (EKS, CloudFront, IAM, EC2, Aurora MySQL, and many more)
• Terraform / Terragrunt
• Linux (Debian, Alpine, Ubuntu)
• Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
• Git, Bitbucket, Jira, CircleCI, DataDog
• IoT MQTT devices

We are looking for someone with

• Several years of experience in an infrastructure role working with AWS services, e.g. IAM, VPC, EKS, RDS Aurora MySQL, SQS, EC2, Lambda
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Terraform in particular
• Knowledge of containerization, preferably Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• DevOps experience, especially in configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Good familiarity with networking concepts and best practices
• Ability to calmly and efficiently debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills conducive to teamwork and collaboration
• A strong command of written and spoken English

That said, we’d be particularly delighted to hire someone with

• Background utilizing and supporting monitoring and analytical tools such as DataDog, Graphana etc.
• AWS Certification of ‘Solutions Architect Associate’ or higher
• Experience with SQL and database optimization
• DevSecOps and GitOps experience
• Machine learning and/or data pipeline infrastructure experience
• Knowledge of additional languages (human and machine)

At this point, Cropster will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Austria for this opening. For Non-EU applicants: please attach your work permit to your application.

What you can expect

The salary range for this position is € 48K to € 56K gross/year and we look at factors like your experience and individual qualifications to determine our offer. Additional benefits include budgets for education & wellbeing, and professional development, remote work and home office, very flexible working hours without core hours, paid time for volunteer work, access to mental health support, tax-friendly bike leasing, and an endless stream of really great coffee. We also make our best possible offer upfront - no games.