Cloud & DevOps Architect (Hands-on AWS/TF/K8S)

Incubly is a company that supports tech companies and scaleups in growing their teams quickly and with quality, while boosting product development, testing, and deployment. The company focuses on building teams and environments where talented engineers can grow and create meaningful solutions.

• Extensive experience as a Cloud, DevOps, or Platform Architect, or as a Lead Engineer in production environments, combined with current hands-on technical capability.
• Proven customer-facing consulting or Professional Services experience, including independently leading discovery, architecture, and post-sales technical delivery.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including ability to lead difficult discussions, challenge assumptions, and explain technical trade-offs.
• Proven ownership, technical leadership and coordination skills in multi-team or multi-client environments with incomplete information, changing priorities and external dependencies.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture and production infrastructure, including networking, IAM, KMS, secrets management, resilience, and operational security.
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise, including reusable modules, state management, multi-environment design, imports, state migrations, CI/CD, and brownfield adoption.
• Practical experience designing and validating high availability and Disaster Recovery for stateful workloads, including backup and restore, replication, failover, failback and RTO/RPO.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes and Helm, including networking, ingress, RBAC, secrets, storage, scaling, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Good understanding of API Gateways, API Management platforms and integration architectures; hands-on Gravitee experience is a strong advantage.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git-based delivery, security controls, monitoring and observability, and troubleshooting across infrastructure, platform and application layers.
• Ability to prepare clear architecture and operational documentation.
• Professional working proficiency in Polish and English.
• Willingness to travel occasionally.

Nice to have:

• Strong experience with Amazon EKS and surrounding AWS networking, security and load-balancing services.
• Experience designing multi-region or cross-account Disaster Recovery architectures in AWS.
• Experience migrating infrastructure from CloudFormation or manually managed AWS resources to Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with API platforms, including platform architecture, deployment, configuration, upgrades or troubleshooting.
• Experience with Kubernetes Operators.
• Experience with event-driven and streaming architectures based on Kafka, Amazon MSK, Kinesis, or similar technologies.
• Experience with policy-as-code, Infrastructure as Code validation and security scanning tools such as OPA, Checkov, tfsec, TFLint or similar.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Knowledge of API security, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, identity providers, and certificate-based authentication.
• Experience working in regulated environments or projects with formal security, compliance or audit requirements.
• Experience mentoring Senior Engineers or acting as a Technical Lead across distributed teams.
• Experience supporting technical scoping, estimation, and planning of Professional Services engagements.

• Act as the technical lead and trusted advisor for client engagements, leading discovery across cloud infrastructure, applications, data, integrations, security, observability, and operations.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into architecture decisions, delivery scope, phased plans, estimates, dependencies, risks, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead difficult client discussions, challenge assumptions, secure required decisions and inputs, and maintain delivery momentum despite uncertainty or delays.
• Coordinate engineers, client teams, and subject matter experts across parallel workstreams.
• Translate architecture into implementable work, review technical deliverables, and remove blockers.
• Design resilient AWS and Disaster Recovery architectures covering high availability, cross-region or cross-account recovery, backup and restore, replication, failover, failback, and RTO/RPO trade-offs.
• Define Terraform and Infrastructure as Code foundations and governance, including repositories, reusable modules, state management, multi-environment configuration, CI/CD, drift detection, and safe brownfield adoption.
• Design cloud-native API Management platforms based on Gravitee, Kubernetes, and Helm including topology, scaling, networking, security, observability, and upgrade strategies.
• Define controlled Git-based delivery workflows for infrastructure, platform components, API definitions, and API Management configuration.
• Remain hands-on by creating or reviewing Terraform code, Helm charts, Kubernetes resources and pipelines; building proof-of-concepts and troubleshooting complex cross-layer issues.
• Lead Disaster Recovery exercises, restore and failover tests, and platform readiness reviews; evaluate actual results and required improvements.
• Prepare architecture documentation, ADRs, technical standards, runbooks, and test reports.
• Lead technical handover and client enablement, including occasional support at client sites.