Senior Cloud Engineer (Kubernetes)
Job description
Platform engineering role in Trengo's cloud team, working on the Kubernetes platform (EKS clusters managed through GitOps) behind its customer engagement and AI products, including migrating EC2-based workloads onto it. The role also involves helping developers adopt the platform and mentoring engineers.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Hybrid
What you'll do
- Work on EKS clusters and GitOps platform: upgrades, security, autoscaling and core platform components
- Improve how teams deploy to Kubernetes: GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines and self-service templates developers use to ship their apps
- Help migrate the core Laravel application from EC2 to Kubernetes while keeping the existing EC2 fleet healthy
- Manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform, and improve observability, alerting, security and cost across the platform
- Bring engineers along: mentor them, pair on platform changes, write clear docs and help define engineering standards
What we're looking for
- Production experience running Kubernetes and Docker-based workloads, including cluster upgrades, autoscaling and troubleshooting
- Hands-on experience deploying to Kubernetes with GitOps and CI/CD pipelines (FluxCD and GitHub Actions)
- 5+ years in Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering or DevOps roles, with deep AWS experience (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC networking)
- Strong Terraform and Linux skills, and a solid understanding of observability, secrets management and least-privilege access
- Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring engineers and bringing teams along when tools or ways of working change
Nice to have
- Experience with FluxCD, Envoy Gateway, Karpenter, kro, KCL or Kubernetes operators
- Migrating a monolith from VMs to Kubernetes
- Managed databases and search in production (MySQL/PlanetScale, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, Elasticsearch)
- Multi-account AWS, Kafka, Cloudflare or AI/LLM workloads in production
- A background in security, compliance (e.g. GDPR) or incident response
Your team
cloud team
Platform engineering role within the cloud team, working closely with the product and AI teams and the rest of the cloud team.
Benefits
- A key role where you'll make a visible impact in a vibrant scale-up environment
- Hybrid working + 60 days per year to work abroad
- Mental health support with free sessions from on-demand psychologists (OpenUp)
- Learning budget + 2 extra days off to attend courses or conferences
- 28 vacation days
- Travel reimbursement to the Utrecht HQ
- Monthly internet & phone allowance
- Daily warm lunches prepared by the workplace experience team when at the Utrecht office
- Pension contribution
- Sabbatical: after two years, up to three months away (unpaid)
How to get hired
- 1Introductory call – First conversation with the Talent team
- 2Manager interview – Deep dive into experience and expectations
- 3Practical assignment – Role-related, real-world challenge
- 4Team connection – Meet future colleagues and confirm mutual fit
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About Trengo
AI-powered customer engagement platform
Trengo unifies communication channels and leverages agentic AI to deliver proactive, human-like service, boosting efficiency for thousands of businesses worldwide. It is a fast-moving Dutch scale-up, backed by a $36M Series A and an official WhatsApp Business Solutions Provider.
Mission
Redefining the industry by replacing repetitive work with meaningful conversations through an AI-powered customer engagement platform.
Key facts
- Utrecht, Netherlands
- SaaS / customer engagement software
- Backed by a $36M Series A
- Official WhatsApp Business Solutions Provider
- Dutch scale-up
- Platform empowers thousands of users daily
Partners & customers
What they value
- Dynamic pace
- Future-proof mindset
- Ownership
- Open culture