Senior Cloud Engineer

Position Overview

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, your role will be instrumental in streamlining our software delivery lifecycle. You will be responsible for designing, implementing & maintaining our DevOps practices and optimizing the infrastructure together with our team in Bangalore & Amsterdam.

The Founda Health platform for data exchange ensures clinical patient data in different phases of care is collected, resulting in improved patient care.

The scalable, future-proof platform enables a collaborative care approach to connect health organizations and sole practitioners across regions or within care-specific networks including the ability to securely store and exchange billions of patient records.

Founda Health offers the best possible support in collecting data and facilitating the process.

Our platform for data exchange provides a high level of security, reliability, and patient privacy protection.

By providing real-time access to relevant clinical information, the Founda Health platform helps to collaborate and exchange referral information with referring healthcare professionals, handling information from a range of clinical specialties without replacing or disrupting your existing IT solutions.

Things you could be working on:

• Work with the infra team to develop and implement a global hybrid cloud Kubernetes strategy


• Establish and implement CI/CD strategies that allow us to continuously release


• Enhance, extend, and run (internal) tooling to enable our software engineering and support teams to efficiently deliver software


• Migrate the pipelines from Jenkins to Gitlab CI”


• Improve the observability and tracing capabilities of our platform using Elastic Cloud APM to create a single pane of glass solution


• Run our local development environment to a Kubernetes-based setup


• Develop and maintain scalable and automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and Argo CD, with a strong emphasis on Pipeline as Code.


• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS cloud.


• Implement and manage configuration using Ansible and maintain secure operations with a focus on security scanning tools (DAST/SAST).


• Ensure the security of code and infrastructure.


• Monitor system performance using Prometheus and EFK stack.

Our Infrastructure Stack

• Databases: Postgres, MS-SQL


• Queue: Redpanda


• IaaS: AWS


• SaaS: Elastic Cloud, GitLab CI/CD, Cloudflare, BetterUptime


• Tooling: Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Velero, Prometheus


• Networking: VPN

Our ideal candidate

• Multiple years of production experience in a mature Kubernetes environment


• Strong proficiency in at least one cloud platform (ideally AWS)


• Strong opinion and expertise on 100% IaC, ideally in Terraform


• Experience in setting up strongly performing CI/CD pipelines (we use GitLab)


• Advanced (shell) scripting skills and proficiency in at least one programming language (ideally Python or Go)


• You have an opinion on what cloud-native means and are a strong advocate of this


• You consider security and following the industry’s best practices a part of your job

The recruitment process

1. Introductory call - with our people partner. We look forward to getting to know you and telling you about Founda.


2. Introductory call - with two of your future peer engineers.


3. Technical deep-dive session - with two of your future peer engineers. A technical conversation where we will design the architecture together based on a concrete case.


4. Conversation with our Head of R&D India & VP of Engineering. A final conversation to discuss our company goals, your ambitions, and shared expectations.


5. Our offer. Including all the time and space you need to ask any questions. Our people team is ready to support you in this final step.

What we offer

1. An attractive salary.


2. A family-covered insurance plan.


3. A pension & retirement planning.


4. Work with purpose, meaning & ownership.


5. A minimum of 25 holidays a year, with the flexibility to take more if needed.


6. Fun & Social events to relax and connect.

Join us in our mission!

We aim to become the infrastructure for data availability within the global healthcare landscape. Ambitious and challenging? Absolutely. If you're ready to make a difference and embrace the values of curiosity, being connected, ownership, and being a change-maker, we'd love to hear from you!

Note: Research shows that many candidates do not apply unless they meet 100% of the requirements in job ads. Please keep in mind that ideal candidates do not exist :) We encourage you to apply even if only the main requirements apply to you.