Cloud Engineer

Here at The Exploration Company, we are building spacecraft for humanity. As a Cloud Engineer, you will operate and support the cloud platforms that power The Exploration Company’s engineering, operations, and data workloads in France. You will design, deploy, and maintain infrastructure on AWS and SecNumCloud-qualified cloud services so teams can work securely and reliably across both environments. This hands-on, high-ownership role sits at the intersection of aerospace and modern cloud engineering, with a strong focus on security, sovereignty, and compliance requirements. You will work on-site in France and collaborate closely with engineering teams to translate their needs into resilient, secure, and well-documented infrastructure. Key ResponsibilitiesDesign, deploy, and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS and SecNumCloud-qualified cloud environments, including managed Kubernetes, compute, networking, storage, and managed database services. Define and maintain a consistent architecture across AWS and SecNumCloud, including identity, networking, and secrets management, to keep environments comparable and portable where needed. Build and maintain infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) so all environments are reproducible and version-controlled. Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate infrastructure and application builds, testing, and deployment. Manage container platforms and orchestration, including Kubernetes cluster upgrades, networking, RBAC, and workloa