Senior Cloud Engineer (m/f/d)

Title: Senior Cloud Engineer (m/f/d) Location: Cologne, Germany (Hybrid) The company is the tech engine behind one of the most exciting players in the European sports industry. The company builds the infrastructure and products that bring football content to broadcasters, media partners and fans around the world. At the centre is the Content Hub: the one-stop shop for all football media; from highlight clips and exclusive interviews to statistics and behind-the-scenes content. Fast, efficient and in the highest quality. Those who build here see the impact of their work every matchday - on millions of screens around the world. ## Aufgaben Your Mission As Senior Cloud Engineer, you design and build the cloud-native infrastructure that powers football's entire content supply chain: from live production to global distribution. You own architectural decisions, drive complex system integrations and establish AI-assisted engineering as the standard for the team. You think in products and processes, not just in code, and bring a mindset that bridges technology and business impact. Your Responsibilities * AWS Solution Design: Architect and implement cloud-native solutions based on serverless and event-driven paradigms using Infrastructure-as-Code * Workflow Automation: Automate media production workflows; from transcoding and localisation to content distribution * System Integration & Content Supply Chain: Build robust APIs and data pipelines between systems and own the end-to-end media supply chain from ingest to distribution to broadcast and media partners * Engineering Excellence: Drive code quality, testing, observability and DevSecFinOps practices across the team * AI-Assisted Development: Build and establish agentic AI development practices as a model approach for the organisation * Junior Mentoring: Provide technical guidance to junior and regular engineers, developing them towards product-oriented, AI-assisted ways of working ## Qualifikation * You have 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Engineer or in a comparable role * You have deep practical experience with AWS Serverless services (including Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, DynamoDB and S3) and are proficient in TypeScript as your primary development language * You have proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (AWS CDK or comparable) and a solid understanding of event-driven and eventual consistency architecture patterns * You have built robust APIs and integrations between heterogeneous systems, and are familiar with CI/CD pipelines and toolchains such as Bitbucket Pipelines * You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders * You are open to actively shaping AI-assisted development practices and eager to develop your own ways of working accordingly Bonus: * Experience with media-adjacent workflows such as transcoding, AWS Elemental Services or localisation pipelines * First hands-on experience with generative or agentic AI solutions Why This Role? * Your Platform: You are building a cloud-native media platform from the ground up; powering Bundesliga content production and distribution for broadcasters and media partners worldwide. * Your Impact: You own architectural decisions, drive engineering excellence and set the standard for AI-assisted software development within the team. * Your Environment: A greenfield setup, a new team, real ownership and the scale of one of the world's most-watched football leagues.