Romania - Cloud Operations / Platform

Are you a Cloud / Platform Operations Engineer with strong AWS experience, residing in Romania, and having solid hands-on experience operating production environments? If you haven't been in contact with us before, a partnership with emagine might be of interest to you.

emagine is a high-end consultancy firm headquartered in Copenhagen, delivering tailored services and expertise through a global network of expert consultants.

As a freelance Cloud / Platform Operations Engineer, you can be involved in assignments as an expert advisor, as part of an emagine delivery team, or as a trusted consultant embedded within one of our client organizations.

The project is scheduled to start in January.

In Romania, we have a growing office in Bucharest, and across Europe, more than 5,000 consultants are working on exciting international projects.

Benefits of joining our consultant database:

• Access to a wide range of international projects where you can operate and scale real-world production platforms

• Assignments aligned with your technical expertise and operational strengths

• Opportunities to expand your cloud and platform portfolio and advance your consulting career

Main Responsibilities:

• Operate, scale, and secure AWS-based production platforms

• Support containerized workloads running on ECS Fargate

• Manage and operate large-scale or scheduled workloads using AWS Batch

• Ensure secure access management using IAM (roles, policies, permission boundaries, cross-account access)

• Operate and support Windows Server environments at scale

• Manage Active Directory and its integration with AWS Directory Services

• Participate in on-call rotations, incident handling, and root cause analysis

• Collaborate closely with application, data, and infrastructure teams

Key Requirements:

• Strong general AWS knowledge, including networking, security, monitoring, and cost awareness

• Hands-on experience with ECS Fargate and AWS Batch

• Solid understanding of IAM concepts and best practices

• Operational experience with Windows Server environments

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory

• Experience supporting production systems and handling incidents

• Strong English communication skills

Related Technologies / Domain Knowledge:

• Familiarity with data and ETL platforms in AWS (Athena, Glue, data lakes)

• Experience working with relational databases (SQL, preferably MSSQL)

• Experience with Python or scripting for automation and operational tooling

Nice to Have:

• Experience with event-driven or streaming architectures (Kafka, Flink)

• Exposure to non-relational or column-oriented datastores