AWSCloudEngineer(m/f/d)

As an AWS Cloud Platform Engineer, you build and evolve the foundation that enables our product teams to move fast, safely, and at scale. Our central application platform is the backbone for both high-traffic digital products like welt.de and bild.de, as well as business-critical internal systems across editorial, subscription, and commercial domains. Your work directly impacts how efficiently teams can develop, deploy, and operate software. You will shape a modern internal developer platform on AWS — focusing on scalability, reliability, and developer experience — while helping drive our journey towards platform engineering excellence. We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies. Our [five essentials](https://www.axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why) are the values that unite us and our compass in our commitment to freedom. * Design, build, and continuously improve our internal developer platform on AWS using Terraform, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and developer experience * Automate infrastructure delivery through CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Spacelift) and expand self-service capabilities for product teams * Own and evolve core platform components so teams can build, deploy, and operate services more autonomously * Review pull requests, share knowledge, and help maintain high engineering standards across the platform * Evaluate and introduce new AWS services, tools, and cloud-native patterns where they add clear value * Strengthen the platform’s security, compliance, and resilience through clear standards, guardrails, and robust platform design * Work closely with product teams to understand their needs, remove bottlenecks in developer workflows, and translate those needs into scalable platform solutions ## Qualifications * Strong hands-on experience operating critical large-scale AWS environments, with broad knowledge of AWS technologies across areas such as