Senior Cloud Engineer
- Amsterdam
- Hybrid
As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll combine advanced technical expertise with leadership skills to design, build, and operate secure, high-performance cloud infrastructure within a dynamic, 24×7 production environment. You'll set the technical bar for everything-as-code, drive resilience and observability, and mentor the engineers around you — ensuring technical excellence as we scale and launch new markets. Every day, your work will directly support millions of euros raised for charitable causes, creating a meaningful global impact. And every day at work, you’ll be doing your part for all the charities we support
As Senior Cloud Engineer, you’ll:
- Design, build, and operate secure, resilient cloud infrastructure on AWS — owning solutions end-to-end, from design through to long-term production operation.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying bottlenecks, optimizing performance and reliability, and reducing Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) across 24×7 production.
- Set the technical bar for "everything-as-code" — Terraform, CI/CD, compliance- and runbooks-as-code — so change is safe, reviewable, and repeatable, writing infrastructure-as-code that serves as a reference for other engineers.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of excellence and setting best practices through reviews, pairing, and clear standards.
- Lead incident response and on-call for platform-owned services — running incidents calmly, preparing and testing runbooks, and turning each one into a lasting improvement.
- Partner with Architecture, Security, Development, and Operations to agree guardrails, set and protect SLOs, and deliver supportable, day-2-ready solutions.
- Help shape the technical roadmap, aligning cloud engineering priorities with the business and strengthening operational readiness ahead of new market launches.
Skills & Requirements
You’d describe yourself as follows:
- You hold a university degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, with at least 6+ years of experience in cloud or platform engineering.
- You've owned solutions end-to-end — designing, building, operating, and maintaining them in production over time — not only contributing to systems others architected.
- You have expertise in AWS (containers/ECS, IAM, VPC/networking, load balancing, CloudWatch) and expert-level Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.
- You have a strong understanding of cloud networking, DNS, disaster recovery, and the AWS Well-Architected principles, applied to large-scale, resilient systems.
- You're experienced with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab) and bring real-world incident and on-call experience in 24×7 production — calm under pressure, debugging complex issues at speed.
- You're a proactive problem-solver who excels at leading and mentoring engineers, and are comfortable driving technical decisions in collaboration with stakeholders.
- You communicate fluently in English and thrive in an international environment, bringing pragmatic solutions. (Dutch is a strong plus.)
- A monthly salary indication between €5.500,- and €7.200,- based on a 40-hour week and flexible working hours.
Join us
We believe an inclusive organisation is the ideal breeding ground for creativity, collaboration and innovation. Employee solidarity is important to us, too. Each of us has a part to play in that – we are the organisation, after all. We strive to make everyone feel at home. That means keeping an open mind and paying attention to each other’s welfare.
Can you see yourself as part of the team? We encourage you to apply – whatever your roots, religion, age, ability to work or life philosophy.
Please send your CV and cover letter (mandatory) to our Recruitment Business Partner Paulo Pablo through the link above.
Acquisition is not appreciated.
About the company
The Postcode Lottery Group is a marketing-driven international non-profit organisation. We operate lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener and healthier world. Our players win with their neighbours and generate money for charities together – it’s a win-win!
Since the start of the Lotteries in 1989, we have raised over €13.5 billion for thousands of good causes. Together with our players and 1,500 fellow team members in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Norway, you'll be helping to create a better world every day. This is what we call: The Power of Postcodes.
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