
CreateFuture · Bulgaria
Working at CreateFuture CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside or...
Working at CreateFuture
CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work
alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services
that make a difference while always putting people first.
We’re a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the
practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build
the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years.
CreateFuture is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row.
Join us on our journey. Let’s create tomorrow, together, today.
A hands-on senior engineer embedded in the client's platform team, responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of
their Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and DevOps, owning the
day-to-day health of containerised workloads while driving improvements to delivery pipelines, GitOps practices, and managed
service configuration. The right candidate is comfortable working autonomously in a mature, opinionated stack and can influence
without authority across engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
Kustomize-based environment configuration
response
practices
applications
Skills & Experience
operations
We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your
growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious
people who care deeply about what they do.
We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester,
London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.
We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have,
not how busy you look.
We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will
be upfront about where you are in the process.
Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused
conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.
We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to
be themselves and do their best work.
If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.
We look forward to your application!
Working at CreateFuture CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first. We’re a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years. CreateFuture is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and has won Best Workplaces UK multiple years in a row. Join us on our journey. Let’s create tomorrow, together, today. About the role and team: At CreateFuture, the Senior Cloud Engineer is a vital individual contributor and a technical driving force within our delivery teams. You will work closely with clients and delivery teams to bridge the implementation gap, assisting with architectural designs and transforming them into production systems using autonomous and AI-native platforms. This role requires a modern, hybrid engineering approach, blending infrastructure mastery with software development and data engineering principles. You will act as a technical expert on projects, building trusted relationships with client stakeholders, establishing engineering best practices, and mentoring engineers within the Cloud capability. Furthermore, you will actively contribute to setting engineering standards that influence the whole CreateFuture organisation. Key Responsibilities TECHNICAL DELIVERY & IMPLEMENTATION * High-Quality Execution: Proactively contribute to project teams by providing technical guidance, resolving complex technical blockages, supporting migration efforts and writing high-quality, spec-driven code. * Platform Engineering: Build and maintain independent, self-service developer platforms that allow engineering teams to spin up compliant, ephemeral environments automatically using GitOps workflows. * AI & Agentic Infrastructure: Implement the data pipelines, workflow orchestrations, and specialised compute footprints needed to support enterprise AI applications, using technologies like AWS Bedrock and AWS AgentCore. * Observability & Reliability: Build robust monitoring and observability pipelines to ensure the health, performance, and security of distributed cloud applications and AI models. * FinOps Standards: Embed automated cost-estimation tools into the standard CI/CD deployment pipelines, ensuring auto-shutdown policies and resource optimisation are configured by default. CONSULTANCY & CLIENT ALIGNMENT * Client Advisory: Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including tech leads, project managers, and enterprise architects, to ensure successful project delivery according to timelines and budgets. * Commercial Growth: Have a growth mindset on projects, recognising potential operational bottlenecks or new requirements, and own communicating these throughout the team for new opportunities. * Best Practice Champion: Establish best practice tools and processes within client environments, confidently challenging legacy ways of working where appropriate. CAPABILITY & LEADERSHIP SUPPORT * Mentoring: Support and mentor engineers within CreateFuture and our client teams, helping them navigate their learning and technical skill gaps. * Community Contribution: Actively engage in the internal engineering communities, helping to build out an internal repository of reference architectures, Infrastructure as Code templates, and technical blogs. * Culture and Feedback: Help foster an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe team environment by providing timely, open, and honest technical feedback. Skills & Experience CORE TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES Candidates must demonstrate a hybrid balance across the three strategic pillars: Software Engineering (30%), Infrastructure (40%), and Data Engineering (30%). * Infrastructure & Automation (40%): Lots of experience in writing declarative Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, container orchestration with Kubernetes (managing clusters, nodes, and pods), and building CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions. * Software & Agentic Engineering (30%): Proficiency with modern scripting languages for building custom AI agents, configuring workflow orchestration, connecting enterprise API integrations, and implementing agentic guardrails. * Data Engineering (30%): Practical experience implementing components of data pipelines, including real-time streaming tools (AWS Kinesis, Kafka), data orchestration (dbt, Airflow), and managing Vector Databases for RAG architectures. * Observability & Cost Management: SRE/Platform experience with the practical application of real-time monitoring and cloud cost optimisation using native CSP tools or utilities like Infracost and Karpenter. DOMAIN & SECTOR EXPERIENCE * Regulated Industries: Experience delivering secure platforms within highly regulated environments, such as iGaming, Financial Services, or banking, where Zero Trust security and strict compliance controls are mandatory, is highly advantageous. * Consulting: Proven experience operating in a client-facing or consulting engineering role, demonstrating strong communication skills, relationship-building capabilities, and adaptability across changing technical contexts. PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE-LEVEL & CERTIFICATIONS * Associate-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure AZ-104). * At least 1 professional-level certification. * Progressing toward or holding multiple professional certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), AWS ML Engineer Associate, or FinOps Certified Practitioner. WHAT WE’LL OFFER YOU: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look. OUR HIRING PROCESS We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process. It usually looks like this: * Call with our Talent Acquisition Team * Role specific capability interview Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens. INCLUSION AT CREATEFUTURE We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work. If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help. We look forward to your application!
WHAT IS WORKING AT BETTERMILE LIKE? * We mean it when we say “cutting edge” and have a high level of creative freedom in our everyday work * You will be surrounded by like-minded, driven, skilled, and highly motivated people who are keen to contribute to successful solutions * We mean diversity, and we put it in numbers: 130+ people, 40 languages, 40% female (vs. ø26% in the tech industry), ø33 years of age, and yes, we do have Schlager-Fans among us * We have a very supportive and appreciative working environment with a lot of autonomy, a flat hierarchy, and professional growth possibilities * We work in a hybrid mode, with weekly team days for better collaboration and nurturing interpersonal connections. When onsite, we work in a modern, kid- and pet-friendly Better Space in the heart of Berlin-Kreuzberg * Remote work from anywhere for up to 12 weeks in total per year * 30 vacation days in a 5-day/week working model * Kindergarten grant and a Company Pension scheme * Regular team breakfasts, fitness & wellness classes, company runs, and other events. Fruits, snacks, drinks, and coffee with a variety of milk are a given - but yes, we have them * Outstanding flexibility we are proud of – and, of course, the best colleagues in the world! About the Platform Team Every product team's ability to move fast depends on what's running underneath it. The Platform team builds that foundation for Bettermile, from shared infrastructure and authentication to observability, alerting, and developer tooling, so product teams can build, deploy, operate, and secure their products with confidence. The Platform Team's mission is to empower product teams by minimizing their cognitive load, so they can move faster and deliver more business value to our customers. You will be joining a highly impactful role where you will balance hands-on technical execution (approx. 60%) with strategic stakeholder engagement and mentorship (approx. 40%). Our current tech stack: AWS(CDK, EC2, ECS, S3, EventBridge, SQS, Location Services, API Gateway), Pulumi, Kotlin, New Relic, Snowflake, PagerDuty, GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. YOU WILL BE TAKING CARE OF * Driving the evolution and stabilization of our central authentication systems * Taking ownership of our infrastructure's observability, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency, in close collaboration with teams and stakeholders * Implementing infrastructure-as-code across our ecosystems * Providing Mentorship for platform senior engineers, guiding their professional growth, and fostering strong cross-team collaboration * Implementing the company vision by championing DevOps culture, and establishing platform engineering best practices across the organization * No echo chambers here! You will challenge technical directions constructively and share your insights openly, while always being a team player who fully backs the squad's final decisions YOU CHECK THESE BOXES * Deep proficiency and hands-on experience operating within AWS environment * Strong background in system operations, specifically with Linux/Unix * Fluency in a programming language such as Python or similar * A minimum of 2 years of proven experience actively mentoring other engineers and putting them on a successful growth path * Security-minded approach to platform engineering * A proven ability to constructively challenge viewpoints while consistently aligning with the best interests of the organization * A strong preference for a hybrid setup that blends remote flexibility with 2 days of on-site collaboration in our Kreuzberg office IT IS AWESOME IF YOU ALSO HAVE * Experience with AI workloads, ML Ops, AWS Bedrock, Agentcore, or Snowflake Cortex * Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure migration projects spanning multiple teams * AWS certifications TAKE YOUR CHANCE Be a part of shaping a fast-growing industry and make an impact from day one. You’ll have the chance to take on responsibility early, with guidance and support from experienced mentors. We foster a learning culture, collaboration on equal footing, and quick decision-making that moves things forward. Currently, we’re proceeding only with candidates authorized to work in Germany or who already hold a Job Seeker Visa. ABOUT US At Bettermile, we believe delivery shouldn’t be business as usual. We’re transforming last-mile logistics to drive efficiency and create a better delivery experience for everyone. Our geo-based, AI-powered SaaS product handles complex address processing, dynamic routing, and navigation. It is built to manage many stops and multiple constraints. We’re setting a new standard for the last mile and pushing the industry forward, powered by a skilled, international team of tech enthusiasts, logistics experts, and a product suite designed to keep evolving.
ABOUT US At GotPhoto, we are freeing photographers to be more successful. Through our platforms GotPhoto.com and fotograf.de, we help professional photographers simplify and transform the way they work — from photo management and client communication to ordering and payment processing. Our end-to-end workflow and e-commerce solution gives photographers more time to focus on what matters most: being behind the lens. Since 2012, we’ve built a sustainable and profitable business driven by entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, and a deep understanding of photographers’ everyday challenges. Today, thousands of photographers trust our software , creating their own success stories along the way. As the leading e-commerce engine for professional volume photographers and a business backed by EQT, one of the world’s leading private equity firms, we’re powered by a team of 150+ talented and international people building technology that simplifies photographers’ everyday work and helps them focus on capturing meaningful moments. Join us on our journey to empower photographers like never before. YOUR ROLE Do you want to build the platform that helps engineering teams move faster, ship safer, and scale smarter? You'll work at the intersection of Platform Engineering, SRE, Developer Experience, and AI Enablement—building the infrastructure, tooling, and guardrails that power a global SaaS platform. WHAT YOU'LL DO BUILD AND EVOLVE OUR PLATFORM * Design, build, and operate the cloud-native platform that supports our engineering organization. * Create reusable platform services, self-service capabilities, and infrastructure standards that help product teams deliver software faster and more reliably. ELEVATE DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE * Reduce friction across the software development lifecycle. * Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling, automation, and developer workflows that increase productivity and accelerate delivery. * Partner with engineering teams to continuously improve the developer experience. DRIVE RELIABILITY & OBSERVABILITY * Improve the reliability and performance of our systems. * Define and maintain SLAs, SLOs, and observability standards using metrics, logs, tracing, and monitoring. * Support incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous platform improvements. ENABLE AI-NATIVE ENGINEERING * Help shape the next generation of developer platforms. * Build infrastructure and workflows that support: * AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and future AI development tools * Agentic AI infrastructure including MCP servers, tool-calling backends, and secure execution environments * AI workload observability including LLM tracing, latency, usage, and cost monitoring * Safe AI deployment workflows with model versioning, experimentation, rollbacks, and policy-driven guardrails CHAMPION SECURITY & PLATFORM EXCELLENCE * Embed security, compliance, and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices into engineering workflows. * Design scalable AWS architectures and automation that keep our platform secure, reliable, and ready for growth. LEAD THROUGH INFLUENCE * Share knowledge, mentor engineers, and drive cross-functional platform initiatives. * Help establish engineering best practices and foster a culture of continuous improvement. WHAT YOU BRING EXPERIENCE * 5+ years in Platform Engineering, SRE, Developer Experience, or a similar field * Experience building and operating production systems in AWS * Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation background TECHNICAL SKILLS * Cloud & Platform Technologies: You are experienced with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and modern cloud-native infrastructure patterns. * Observability & Reliability: You know how to design systems that are observable, measurable, and resilient using tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana. * Architecture & Systems Thinking: You understand distributed systems, event-driven architectures, authentication and authorization models, infrastructure automation, and modern deployment strategies. * Developer Enablement: You enjoy building tools and platforms that help other engineers be more productive. WHAT MAKES YOU SUCCESSFUL * Platform-as-a-Product Mindset: You think of internal platforms as products and care deeply about the developer experience. * Incremental Builder: You prefer iterative improvements, automation, and sustainable scaling over big-bang solutions. * Collaborative Partner: You enjoy working across teams, building alignment, and enabling others to succeed. * Humble Expert: You bring expertise, curiosity, and a willingness to learn from others. BONUS POINTS * Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) * Experience with AI-assisted software development * Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) * Experience supporting AI/ML workloads in production * Experience in high-growth SaaS environments WHY YOU’LL LOVE LIFE AT GOTPHOTO * Best of Both Worlds: We live and breathe a flexible hybrid model. Our beautiful office at Hausvogteiplatz is our vibrant Berlin hub for collaboration, but you have the freedom to leverage the setup that works best for you. * Work from (Almost) Anywhere: We believe in flexibility that respects your lifestyle. Once you have completed your probation, you have the option to work remotely from within Europe for up to 40 days per year. Whether you are visiting family or simply seeking a change of scenery, we support a work-from-anywhere culture that helps you stay inspired. * Recharge & Unwind: We value your downtime. You start with 26 days of leave, plus we love to top that up with additional discretionary "X-days" to make sure you’re truly rested. * Multicultural & Inclusive Team: We thrive on diverse perspectives. Our international team fosters a culture of mutual respect and professional exchange, ensuring that fresh ideas and tolerance are at the heart of everything we build together. * Fuel Your Growth: We’re big on learning. You’ll get a dedicated education budget to explore new ideas and grow professionally. * Exclusive Employee Discounts: Get more for your money with access to the "Benefits at Work" platform, offering significant discounts on top global brands. * Your Benefits, Your Choice: Through Probonio, you get a monthly budget to spend on what matters to you—whether that’s your public transport pass or other flexible perks that fit your lifestyle. WHAT MATTERS TO US Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds may refrain from applying for positions if they feel they don't meet all qualifications. We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we're excited to discover how your distinctive experience can enhance our team! We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However, you identify. We believe in equal opportunities.