(Senior) Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS

About Shine

Shine exists to help freelancers and small business owners reclaim the joy of working for themselves.

Running a business shouldn't mean drowning in financial admin - it should be inspiring and rewarding. Our app brings banking, invoicing, accounting and admin together in one place, so entrepreneurs can focus on what matters most: growing their business and enjoying the freedom of working for themselves.

We're a multicultural team of over 400 people across France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. By bringing together leading European fintechs like Shine, Kontist and Tellow, we've built a single, intuitive platform designed for simplicity, speed and accuracy - backed by local, award-winning support.

Your hiring experience matters

Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.

If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

Platform Engineering at Shine

Our engineering organization of 150+ engineers is organized into specialized domains. Within the Platform domain, dedicated teams collaborate to provide the foundation that product teams build on:

• AWS Infrastructure - Multi-account architecture, networking, IaC, and platform capabilities on AWS
• Governance & Security - IAM, compliance, policy enforcement, and security baselines
• Engineering Efficiency - CI/CD, golden paths, developer tooling, and observability patterns
• FinOps - Cost visibility, optimization, and cloud financial management

The AWS Infrastructure team manages a large-scale, multi-account AWS environment supporting multiple product lines across several AWS Organizations. We're in the middle of a significant consolidation effort - unifying governance, standardizing IaC and networking, establishing security baselines, and building self-service capabilities that enable product teams to ship with confidence.

This is complex, high-impact work: migrating accounts between organizations, designing enterprise networking, increasing IaC coverage across diverse maturity levels, and building the platform that dozens of engineers rely on daily.

Our Techstack:

• AWS: EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, RDS, Aurora, S3, Lambda, VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, IAM, Organizations, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config, CloudWatch
• IaC & Automation: Terraform/Terragrunt, GitHub Actions, OIDC
• Observability: NewRelic, Datadog, CloudWatch
• Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, VPC Peering, VPN, Route 53

Your Role as a (Senior) Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS

Join the AWS Infrastructure team as a Senior Engineer, leading technical initiatives across our multi-account AWS environment. You'll drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and build the platform capabilities that product teams depend on.

This role combines deep technical AWS expertise with platform leadership - you'll set technical direction, establish standards, and elevate the team's capabilities.

Your responsibilities will include:

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Define the Blueprint: Architect and govern multi-account AWS environments, ensuring scalable networking and platform standards.
• Set the Standard: Lead the adoption of advanced IaC patterns (Terraform/Terragrunt), testing frameworks, and golden paths.
• Own the Big Decisions: Evaluate trade-offs (e.g., EKS vs. ECS vs. Serverless) and execute high-stakes migrations or topology changes.

Platform Engineering & Enablement

• Productize Infrastructure: Build self-service capabilities that allow product teams to deploy faster without friction.
• Connect & Scale: Design enterprise-grade networking (Transit Gateway, hybrid connectivity) and CI/CD ecosystems.
• Guardrails, Not Gates: Balance organizational standardization with developer autonomy through smart automation.

Team Growth & Operations

• Force Multiplier: Mentor engineers, lead high-quality code reviews, and foster a culture of platform thinking.
• Operational Health: Define SLIs/SLOs and lead incident response for complex, high-impact issues.
• Continuous Evolution: Drive measurable improvements in reliability, performance, and cloud cost-efficiency.

About you

• You have at least 7 years experience in a relevant field
• Extensive AWS experience with proven track record of architecting large-scale, multi-account systems
• Expert-level understanding of AWS Organizations, SCPs, and multi-account governance
• Advanced Terraform/Terragrunt expertise with module library design and testing frameworks
• Deep experience with GitHub Actions: building composite actions, reusable workflows, and efficient pipelines
• Strong container platform experience (ECS/Fargate and/or Kubernetes/EKS)
• Expert AWS networking skills (Transit Gateway, complex VPC architectures, hybrid connectivity)
• Proven ability to evaluate trade-offs between compute platforms (EC2, ECS, Fargate, EKS, Lambda)
• Experience with IAM Identity Center (SSO), cross-account access patterns, and least-privilege design
• Familiarity with AWS security and compliance services (Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, CloudTrail)
• Experience with cost optimization practices and FinOps fundamentals
• Experience leading technical initiatives and driving architectural decisions

Equal Opportunity Employer

We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.

Our recruitment process

1. A 30' first call your Talent Acquisition Specialist to get to know you better and share more about Shine.
2. A 45' interview with Davide (Engineering Manager) to discuss your past experiences and the role we are offering.
3. A 90' business case presentation to highlight your skills and give you a hands-on feel for the role.
4. A 45' team introduction, followed by a soft skills interview to see how we can best support your growth at Shine.