Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d) Mid-Senior Level - AWS, Kubernetes

Tasks

As our Infrastructure Engineer, you'll own the foundation that powers finperks as we scale from our first clients to processing millions of transactions.

You will:

• Design, build, and maintain our AWS infrastructure to support high-availability, low-latency API services across multiple regions
• Manage and optimize our Kubernetes clusters, ensuring seamless deployments and efficient resource utilization
• Enable our engineering team to ship fast with confidence #CI/CD
• Implement and maintain our ELK stack for logging, monitoring, and alerting to ensure system reliability and quick incident response
• Ensure infrastructure security practices, implement access controls, and support compliance requirements for financial services
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions that keep our platform fast as we scale
• Automate everything - from infrastructure provisioning to deployment workflows and operational tasks

Requirements

You'll need:

• AWS Expertise: 3+ years hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, etc.)
• Container & Orchestration: Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments
• CI/CD: Proven track record building and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines (or similar)
• Observability: Experience with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or similar logging and monitoring solutions
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar IaC tools
• Scripting & Automation: Proficient in Python, Bash, or similar for automation tasks
• Problem Solver: You debug complex distributed systems and find elegant solutions to infrastructure challenges
• Communication: Strong English skills; German is a plus

Nice to have:

• Experience in FinTech, SaaS platforms, or developer tools
• Knowledge of testing frameworks
• Understanding of web performance optimization techniques
• Familiarity with AWS services and cloud deployment
• Basic understanding of backend technologies and APIs

Benefits

• Learn from experienced Engineers: Receive constant feedback while having eye-level discussion
• Ownership from Day One: Shape our infrastructure architecture and technical decisions with real autonomy
• Impact at Scale: Build systems that will process billions in transaction volume as we grow across global markets
• Modern Tech Stack: Work with cutting-edge tools and technologies without legacy constraints
• Competitive Package: Attractive salary

Berlin Lifestyle: Office in Charlottenburg with flexibility for hybrid work arrangements Ready to build backend systems for the next FinTech Unicorn? We are looking for builders ready for an ambitious journey. Expect tough challenges, plenty feedback, constant change, on-call duty and frequent deployments. In return you're getting lots of opportunity to grow, the smartest people you have worked with on your team and recognition for doing your best work. If you need clarity on every task, avoid ambiguity at all costs, or prefer established processes over figuring things out - this isn't the place. But if you're energized by zero-to-one building, thrive when shipping fast matters more than perfection, and want ownership over following playbooks, Apply Now!