AMS Accelerate IT

Cloud Operations Engineer

AMS Accelerate IT  •  Remote  •  2 days ago
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Job Description

Job Ad (2026 05)

We're looking for a Cloud Operations Engineer to run our production deployments and act as the operational point of contact for our US-based client team.

The role has two modes. During release cycles, you focus on planning and executing deployments alongside the client. Between releases, you focus on improving the infrastructure and tooling that supports them: CI/CD pipelines, runbooks, observability, automation.

The right person for this role is comfortable in Kubernetes and Helm, knows their way around a Linux shell, and is fine flexing into US working hours when there's a deployment in flight. You're someone who likes things to work, communicates clearly when they don't, and stays calm when production is on the line.

WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO

During deployment cycles:

  • Plan, schedule, and execute production deployments in coordination with the client's engineering team
  • Flex into US working hours (afternoon/evening Romania time) during deployment windows to align with the client on releases, change requests, and incident response
  • Act as the day-to-day operational point of contact between our team and the client during release cycles
  • Investigate and resolve deployment, networking, and infrastructure issues in production, escalating to the engineering team when needed
  • Communicate deployment status, risks, and incidents clearly to both client and internal teams

Between deployment cycles:

  • Improve the deployment infrastructure and tooling: CI/CD pipelines, Helm charts, runbooks, observability, automation
  • Work on broader cloud and Kubernetes operations: cluster maintenance, networking, secret management, cost and reliability improvements
  • Help shape deployment processes and change management as the platform grows

Requirements

QUALITIES

  • You take pride in clean, predictable deployments and good change discipline
  • You enjoy working directly with a client team: writing tickets, joining their stand-ups when needed, being the single point of contact during deployment windows
  • You're fine with a schedule that flexes (some weeks heavy US overlap, some weeks normal EU hours) instead of a fixed 9-to-5
  • You stay composed during incidents and communicate clearly under pressure
  • You ask questions when something looks wrong instead of pushing through
  • You document what you do, so the next person (or you, three months from now) doesn't

have to reverse-engineer it

  • Comfortable using AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Copilot, etc.) as part of your daily workflow

QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3+ years of experience in operations, DevOps, SRE, or related hands-on infrastructure roles
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Solid Kubernetes experience: deployments, services, ingress, debugging pods and workloads.
  • Helm charts: reading, editing, templating, and deploying them.
  • Networking knowledge across cloud and Kubernetes: Load Balancers, Ingress controllers, NGINX, Istio, Cilium, Azure CNI.
  • CI/CD experience with ArgoCD and GitLab CI
  • Scripting and coding in bash, Python, or Go
  • Solid Linux fundamentals: filesystem, CLI, log and process troubleshooting
  • Strong written and spoken English (mandatory: you'll be in daily contact with the client)

NICE TO HAVE

  • Prior experience working directly with US-based clients or distributed teams
  • On-call or production support experience in an enterprise / regulated environment
  • Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry)
  • Exposure to Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools
  • Experience with secret management tools (Vault, CyberArk, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault)
  • Completed technical university degree

WHAT WE OFFER

  • A monthly amount dedicated to well-being needs
  • A monthly subscription to medical services
  • 21 vacation days / year; extra vacation days after 2 years within the company
  • 3 personal days / year
  • Referral bonus
  • Access to learning platforms for continuous self-development
AMS Accelerate IT

About AMS Accelerate IT

AMS Accelerate IT is an IT recruitment organization with a solid 16 years' experience background.

Our clear purpose is helping you grow your company, whether you are a start-up or a corporation, by providing you the most valuable resource: people!

We have been helping companies as well as candidates accelerating their future into the present. On the path, we have become the largest IT recruitment agency in Romania and one of the main ones in CEE.

We are part of the Executive Search network, Talentor International, as partner in Romania. Talentor has presence in +54 offices all over the 5 continents and it's one of the Top 40 Global recruitment service providers.

Let's get to know each other and find how we can find the right techies for you!

Industry
HR & Recruiting
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Sector 1, RO
Year Founded
Unknown
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