Infrastructure (Cloud) Engineer

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Infrastructure (Cloud) Engineer Our Infrastructure Engineering team builds and operates foundational Linux and cloud infrastructure that our developers and engineers rely on every day. We are looking for a hands-on Infrastructure engineer with deep, production-level experience administering Linux at scale and designing, building, and operating core multi-cloud foundations. In this role, you will own and evolve critical infrastructure layers, starting with large-scale Linux systems and extending into the design and implementation of cloud foundations. This includes automating cloud account onboarding and lifecycle management, designing cloud network topologies from the ground up, establishing security and identity foundations, and building shared platforms for cost management, observability, logging, and tracing. You will remain deeply hands-on, responsible not only for architectural direction but also for implementing and operating highly available, automated, production-grade infrastructure. If you are a hands-on Linux engineer with strong cloud experience who enjoys building cloud foundations, automating infrastructure at scale, and owning architectural decisions through implementation and operation, this role is for you. What You'll Do Your primary responsibility will be the end-to-end architecture and stability of our foundational infrastructure. This goes beyond scripting and focuses on systems design, reliability, and security at scale. - Build the Foundation: Design and implement complete setups of multi-cloud environments, including account structure, landing zones, VPCs, IAM, security baselines, and cost controls. - Networking & Connectivity: Establish robust, secure hybrid connectivity between cloud environments and on-premises infrastructure (VPNs, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, etc.). - Security & Governance: Implement cloud security controls, guardrails, and policy enforcement to align with organizational and regulatory requirements. - Observability: Introduce logging, monitoring, alerting, and tracing using cloud-agnostic and third-party observability tools to give visibility into the health and performance of cloud services. - Automation: Develop and maintain automation for account provisioning, identity and access management, and other common cloud operations tasks using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). - Cost Optimization: Implement cost controls, tagging strategies, and reporting mechanisms to manage cloud spend and drive cost awareness. - Support & Troubleshooting: Serve as a point of escalation for cloud-related issues, helping other teams troubleshoot, resolve, and learn from incidents. - Collaborate & Upskill: Work cross-functionally with internal teams, share your knowledge, and contribute to growing a high-performing engineering organization. - Ensure Platform Reliability: Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across the cloud infrastructure to guarantee the high availability and performance our customers depend on. You will also participate in a blameless on-call rotation. What We're Looking For This role requires a senior Systems Engineer mentality with a strong track record of designing and operating production infrastructure. Minimum Requirements: - 5+ years of hands-on Linux Systems Engineering in large-scale, high-availability environments; deep knowledge of OS internals, scripting (Bash, Python, Go), and configuration management (e.g. Puppet, Ansible). - 5+ years of hands-on cloud/infrastructure engineering experience designing and managing foundational components (networking, IAM, security, account structures) in AWS, Azure, or GCP; multi-cloud experience is a plus. - Strong understanding of cloud fundamentals and large-scale architecture. - Experience designing and implementing hybrid cloud connectivity (VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute) and complex network topologies, including routing, firewalls, and peering. - Solid foundation in cloud security, identity, governance, and compliance best practices. - Hands-on experience with observability stacks (e.g. CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Operations, Prometheus, Grafana). - Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi) for provisioning and managing core cloud services. - Experience with cloud cost management, tagging