We're looking for a Principal Cloud Kubernetes Engineer (AWS & Azure) to join our team in Malaga, Spain in a hybrid working mode. In this role, you will design, deploy and operate multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure across AWS and Azure, leveraging GitOps principles and infrastructure-as-code to enable scalable, reliable and secure platform operations.

This position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge Kubernetes ecosystems, enhance automation for mission-critical workloads and collaborate closely with engineering teams to optimize application delivery within a modern cloud-native environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain production Kubernetes clusters on EKS (AWS) and AKS (Azure) across multiple environments and regions
• Configure and operate GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, enabling declarative application delivery and cluster configuration
• Develop and manage Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for cloud resources and Helm/Helmfile for Kubernetes deployments
• Ensure observability and reliability with Prometheus, Grafana,



CloudWatch and implement monitoring/alerting strategies
• Apply security best practices, including network policies, RBAC, pod security controls and secret management solutions
• Operate and optimize Kubernetes add-ons such as Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, cert-manager, CSI drivers and cluster autoscalers
• Diagnose and resolve distributed systems issues in compute, networking and storage layers
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment models, scalability and resource utilization
• Ensure clear documentation of architectures, operational workflows and incident handling standards

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional engineering experience with modern cloud-native architectures
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms (AWS and Azure), including EKS, AKS, VPC/VNet, IAM, EBS/EFS, S3, Load Balancers and Route53
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, networking, storage and security pri

📌 Principal Cloud Kubernetes Engineer (Málaga)
🏢 Epam Systems
📍 Málaga