Cloud Platform Engineer

It's a new day with a new opportunity at 8am! About the role:8am is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help us build and maintain our next-generation platform. You will be a member of the Platform Engineering Organization, which is responsible for the software and infrastructure management focusing on availability, performance and security of core service layers supporting our payments platform and practice management software. We serve over 200,000 legal professionals and process over $18 billion in payments every year! You will work closely with our development teams to ensure they have the tools needed to build, test, and deploy code with ease and ensure software and quality engineer success. You will engineer and maintain configuration management environments, software delivery pipelines, IaC processes, technical governance and observability tools among other areas of platform availability.This role is hired through an Employer of Record (EOR) partner in the Czech Republic.About us:8am builds software that helps professionals run stronger businesses. Our platform powers payments, client experience, and operational workflows for legal, accounting, and other service-based businesses. U.S. based professionals count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters.More than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. rely on our products every day. As we continue to grow, we’re investing in the next generation of our platform and are looking for experienced engineers who want to help shape its future.What you'll do:Automate deployment, monitoring, and management for 100% AWS cloud based infrastructureDevelop, implement and own developer focused internal tooling and automation as your productShare in new feature design as the cloud SME supporting container/k8s first designsCreate and maintain automated Ci/CD pipelines that streamline the release process and ensure high-quality code is delivered rapidly and continuously in a safe and compliant mannerDevelop, manage and enhance the Internal Developer and Production Platforms achieving maximum availability and stability metricsCollaborate with developers to identify pain points and bottlenecks in the development process and design and implement solutions that improve the developer experience and increase overall productivityPut together comprehensive onboarding programs and training resources to seamlessly integrate new developers into the organizationParticipate in an on-call rotation and provide emergency support occasionally outside of normally scheduled hours as neededEvolve and extend observability tools and systems to determine and resolve performance and usability issuesAbout you:5+ years of professional technical experience in software engineering, AWS cloud operations or a related function.3+ years of experience within a DevOps, INF or Platform Engineering roleExperience implementing and maintaining kubernetes specific Ci/CD pipelines using CircleCI (preferred), ArgoCD (preferred), Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab, Azure Devops, etc.Experience creating internal tooling that supports developer productivityExperience designing and implementing automated development environmentsDocumented experience provisioning and managing infrastructure in a public cloud environment such as AWS (heavily preferred), Google Cloud Platform, or AzureExperience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker, OCI, LXC and ability to administer, build and deploy images in an automated manner.Solid understanding of how a Kubernetes platform operates (service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing)Proficiency in at least one, ideally more of the following programming or scripting languages: Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript (NodeJS), BashExperience utilizing Infrastructure as Code to provision and maintain infrastructure: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormationWorking understanding of relational database systems such as MySQL (preferred) and PostgreSQLExperience with Kafka on an MSK environment is a plusExperience with ElasticSearch is a plusExperience with generative and agentic AI in an infrastructure management and implementation perspective is a plus Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.This position is preferably based in Brno, Czech RepublicWhy join our new 8am Brno hub?Founding Team Impact: Be a founding engineer of our new Brno R&D hub. After a brief 1-6 month integration with U.S. based teams, you will help form fully autonomous, locally-led squads with clear paths to Staff and leadership rolesDrive our "AI-First" Transformation: We are building a secure, massive-scale "Unified AI Platform". Depending on your squad, you will eith