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Engineering4 days agoHybrid

Merkle

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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Key details

Salary

Not specified

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority

Senior

Years experience

5-10

Location

Sofia, Bulgaria

Full job description

Merkle is seeking a senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Sofia. The role involves designing, building, and evolving cloud platform architecture and capabilities across client environments, focusing on reliability, security, and governance. Responsibilities include defining secure-by-design patterns, resilience architecture, infrastructure-as-code standards, and providing technical guidance during incidents and major changes. The engineer will also support operational governance, client escalations, and collaborate with project teams. Required experience includes cloud infrastructure architecture (Azure/AWS/GCP), strong IaC skills (Terraform, Bicep), ITIL/ITSM knowledge, and handling critical escalations. English proficiency is required; Danish is a plus. The position offers flexible working arrangements, a modern office in Sofia, continuous learning opportunities, and a competitive compensation package.

What you'll do

  • Architect and build cloud foundations and platform capabilities across client environments
  • Define secure-by-design patterns, guardrails, and platform standards for Cloud Operations
  • Design resilience and continuity architecture, including backup/restore strategy and disaster recovery
  • Own and evolve infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices and tooling standards
  • Drive continuous improvement of the platform approach
  • Provide specialist guidance to Cloud Operations Engineers during complex incident investigations, major changes, and architecture-impacting decisions
  • Assess and respond to critical CVEs and security advisory items, coordinating with dentsu EMEA security
  • Define platform-level patterns that support incident management, change management, SLA governance, and on-call practice
  • Provide senior technical input on P1/critical incidents and client-impacting situations
  • Ensure platform ownership responsibilities are clearly defined and applied
  • Maintain platform design standards that support audit-readiness, NIS2, and client contractual obligations
  • Contribute to operational reporting quality, including platform health signals and SLA-relevant metrics
  • Act as senior technical point of contact for client escalations requiring infrastructure or platform expertise
  • Collaborate with Project Managers and delivery teams on change planning, release readiness, and deployment governance
  • Contribute to account-level technical conversations, including architecture reviews and SLA design
  • Support pre-sales and proposal work where infrastructure architecture or managed operations expertise is required

Requirements

  • Proven experience architecting and running cloud infrastructure in a professional services or managed operations context (Azure/AWS/GCP)
  • Strong IaC proficiency (Terraform, Bicep, or equivalent) and understanding of secure-by-design cloud patterns
  • Deep understanding of ITIL/ITSM practices: incident management, change management, problem management, and SLA governance
  • Experience handling critical escalations and acting as a senior technical interface with clients
  • Ability to work across both strategic platform design and hands-on technical input when required
  • Comfortable operating in a multi-client, commercially governed environment with contractual obligations (SLAs, NIS2, data processing)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; Danish is an advantage

Tech stack

AzureAWSGCPTerraformBicepIaCITILITSM

Benefits

Work on complex, international commerce platforms for well-known global brandsA collaborative, engineering-driven culture with strong technical leadershipFlexible working arrangements and modern office environment in SofiaAccess to continuous learning, certifications, and career development within dentsu / MerkleCompetitive compensation and benefits package

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