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London, England, United Kingdom

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

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TechnologyIndustries

Requirements

3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure in high-availability environments
Strong AWS knowledge across core services: VPC, ALB, EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, Route53, RDS, ElastiCache, SNS/SQS, etc
Terraform expertise for infrastructure provisioning
Practical experience with Kubernetes (ideally EKS), including workload tuning, autoscaling, and troubleshooting under load
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Go preferred)
Understanding of networking concepts: routing, DNS, load balancing
Familiarity with CDN/Edge (e.g., Fastly) and how they interact with backend systems
Comfortable debugging distributed systems issues across Edge, Network, Compute, and Storage layers
Experience with observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) and tools like Splunk and New Relic
Familiarity with SRE practices: SLO, SLA, etc
Excellent English communication skills, verbal and written (German not required)

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain infrastructure that must be highly available, secure, and scalable – serving billions of monthly requests
Work with AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices
Deploy and optimize Kubernetes clusters and help ensure that workloads scale and recover gracefully
Collaborate across domains and teams to enable infrastructure improvements
Work to improve observability at scale
Help us stay ahead of operational risks - anticipating bottlenecks or failure points before they cause problems
Be involved in incident response, postmortems

Skills

Key technologies and capabilities for this role

AWSVPCALBEKSEC2S3LambdaRoute53RDSElastiCacheSNSSQSTerraformKubernetesGoFastly

Questions & Answers

Common questions about this position

Is this position remote?

Yes, this is a remote position.

What is the salary for this Infrastructure Engineer role?

This information is not specified in the job description.

What are the key skills required for this role?

Key requirements include 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure in high-availability environments, strong AWS knowledge across core services like VPC, ALB, EKS, strong Terraform expertise, practical Kubernetes experience, and proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Go preferred).

What is the company culture like for this team?

The team values short, fast iterations while keeping long-term strategy in mind, focuses on solving real problems, and consists of thoughtful, collaborative engineers who support each other, share knowledge freely, and work closely with product teams.

What makes a strong candidate for this Infrastructure Engineer position?

A strong candidate has 3+ years of experience in high-availability cloud infrastructure, strong AWS and Terraform expertise, Kubernetes experience ideally with EKS, proficiency in Go or another modern language, and thrives on responsibility in building scalable systems.

Contentful

Digital content management platform for businesses

About Contentful

Contentful offers a platform for digital content management that enables businesses to create, manage, and deliver content without coding. Its content management system (CMS) is designed for teams to streamline their content production and maintain a consistent experience across various brands and channels. Unlike competitors, Contentful operates on a freemium model, providing free access to basic features while charging for advanced capabilities. The company's goal is to empower businesses to effectively manage their digital content at scale.

Berlin, GermanyHeadquarters

2013Year Founded

$324.4MTotal Funding

SERIES_FCompany Stage

Consumer Software, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries

501-1,000Employees