Cloud Engineer (d/f/m)

Join us on our Journey at Flexa: We’re looking for a driven Cloud Engineer to design, build, and scale our AWS-native IT architecture. Your expertise in real-time AWS services and ambition to make an impact will help us expand Europe’s largest virtual powerplant. You’ll play a key role in critical infrastructure projects, delivering solutions with the team while ensuring compliance with security and operational standards. If you’re smart, ambitious, and ready for rapid growth, we want to hear from you.

• Location: Munich, Germany

• Employment Type: Full-Time, indefinite term

• Salary Range: € 75.000 - 95.000 per year gross depending on the seniority level

• Office-first work setup

• Language Requirement: C1 Level English

• Contribute to the design and building of a fully AWS-native IT architecture, from conceptualization to production, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.
• Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable, cloud-optimized solutions, applying cloud-native best practices to enhance both system architecture and code quality.
• Support the end-to-end infrastructure for platform components - from data ingestion to UI layers - by implementing infrastructure-as-code (IaC)  solutions that ensure reliable deployments and system availability.
• Integrate AI-powered tools across both your development workflow and broader business processes - including observability, data analytics, and documentation- staying ahead of emerging AI developments to drive efficiency and share actionable insights with the team.
• Apply security-first principles across our cloud infrastructure to ensure the technical integrity and resilience of our critical systems.
• Enhance system efficiency by implementing and maintaining monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Proactively identify and help address bottlenecks and areas for improvement in system performance and architecture.

Mandatory requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS cloud platforms, building and managing infrastructure.

• Experience in software engineering, especially in programming and scripting languages like Python or Bash.

• Strong knowledge and experience with AWS services like API Gateway, DynamoDB, Lambda, IAM, ECS, EKS and CloudFormation.

• Experience in supporting containerized applications, orchestration and deployment.

• Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture principles and experience in implementing them for production environments.

• Experience with setting up production CI/CD pipelines

• Solid hands-on experience in creating and maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code using, e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK.

Skills that set you apart:

• Experience in the energy sector.

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, combined with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset that drives impact.

This role may not be a fit for you if…

• You don’t proactively define your own tasks or milestones, and instead tend to rely on other functions to initiate or break down the work needed for delivery

• You prefer working in clearly separated functions and hierarchies

• You thrive in a steady, unchanging environment rather than a fast-paced, ambitious setting driven by rapid growth and high-impact outcomes.

At Flexa, we are committed to diversity - of backgrounds and experiences. You don’t need 100% of the preferred qualifications to add incredible value to our team. If you’re passionate about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.

• Virtual Share Options: We offer virtual share options to all our employees

• Professional Development: Annual development budget of 3,000 € for coachings, trainings, books, etc

• Health & Sport Subsidy: Company subsidised sports facilities membership or
  Public Transportation Subsidy: Monthly subsidy for your public transport ticket

• Lunch/Dinner Allowance Vouchers: Allowance for meals on working days as digital meal vouchers

• Work Equipment: MacBook, an ergonomic workplace setup, and company-funded access to leading AI development tools so you always have the best tools available

• Regular Team Events: Knowledge Sessions, Afterwork, Sports, Offsites, Halloween, Pride Month, etc.

• At Lyft (2018–2024), I initially built the in-car middleware system for autonomous driving. Later, my team and I developed the in-house mapping stack—including the routing engine and estimated-time-of-arrival (ETA) system—powering millions of rides.
• At Apple (2016–2018), I led a team in the Special Projects Group focused on autonomous systems.
• At Siemens (2015–2016), I spearheaded software development for a startup within Siemens, creating a hardware/software platform for autonomous electric vehicles.
• Before that, I was a founding member of fortiss, a non-profit research organization in Munich.