Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS)
About Us
At Refinery89 we help publishers significantly boost the quality quantity innovation and distribution of their ad-inventory in the increasingly complex digital ecosystem. Our main objective: increase their net outcome. Besides our deep expertise the backbone of our success is our award-winning header bidding technology which provides our publishers with a competitive advantage.
We operate from our offices in Madrid and Amsterdam making sure we always add value between digital publishers and advertisers. As a team we strive for perfection and profitable results through innovation speed and exceptional service in all our activities while we question assumptions keep learning and make sure we enjoy every day at the office.
If youre looking to make an impact Refinery89 is the right place. We offer an exceptional and flexible work environment. Being a startup with exponential growth nearing the scale-up phase those willing to go the extra mile will be able to boost both their personal and professional lives.
Interview Process
Our process is designed to be transparent efficient and respectful of your time:
- Screening Call (10 minutes) with our Senior Recruiter.
- First Interview with the Hiring Manager (CTO).
- Second Interview with the Team Lead.
- Final Interview to cover details and next steps.
Key Responsibilities
- Design implement and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure ensuring scalability reliability and security.
- Architect and manage networking storage compute and security within AWS.
- Lead automation initiatives for provisioning monitoring and incident response.
- Optimize infrastructure performance and cost management.
- Establish and enforce security best practices across cloud environments.
- Stay ahead of AWS innovations and proactively adopt relevant new technologies.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure issues in production and non-production environments.
- Support development teams by enabling seamless deployments and integrating cloud infrastructure into the software delivery lifecycle.
Required Skills and Experience
- 5 years of professional experience as a Cloud Engineer Infrastructure Engineer or similar role with a strong focus on AWS.
- Deep expertise with core AWS services (EC2 ECS/EKS RDS S3 VPC IAM CloudWatch CloudFormation/Terraform etc.).
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation Terraform).
- Proficiency in automation and scripting (Python Bash or similar).
- Hands-on experience with monitoring alerting and logging tools.
- Solid understanding of networking security and compliance in cloud environments.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker Kubernetes) is a plus.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and version control (Bitbucket or Git-based workflows).
- Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to design and implement scalable solutions.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Fluency in both Spanish and English is a must (written and spoken).
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent hands-on experience.
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional DevOps Engineer Professional or SysOps Administrator) are highly valued.
- Proven experience leading cloud infrastructure projects from design to production.
What We Offer
- Immediate start.
- Competitive compensation and benefits (holidays equipment yearly team weekend).
- Join the number 1 fastest-growing ad agency in Europe by AdWeek in 2022.
- Additional yearly bonus upon hitting company-wide turnover and profit targets.
- Hands-on advanced training in digital advertising.
- Be part of an experienced team of international professionals.
- Career growth opportunities; current hires are future execs.
- Cobee benefits.
- Free coffee free beverages fresh fruit and weekly afternoon drinks!
- A challenging and ambitious project with a team of the best professionals in the industry!