Senior Cloud Ops Engineer (AWS/GCP)
Senior Cloud Ops Engineer (AWS/GCP)
About the role and the team
Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE) is a Business Unit of nearly 200 people that continues to strengthen to support Decathlon's tech ambitions. Our main objective is to streamline the technical product catalog and provide turnkey services for IT teams, allowing them to focus on developing high-impact application features.
Within CPE, you will join the Cloud Foundation team, composed of passionate engineers; our mission is crucial: to provide a robust, scalable, and secure Cloud platform that enables product teams to deploy their applications autonomously, quickly, and reliably.
We are passionate about Cloud, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps/SRE culture, automation, technological monitoring... and of course, sport!
Scope and missions of a Senior CloudOps Engineer
As a Senior Cloud Ops Engineer, you will have a role as a technical expert and a cross-functional reference; your missions will revolve around the following pillars:
1. Cloud Organization & Scalable Architecture
- Manage, secure, and evolve the global governance of the group's 2 main Cloud providers: GCP and AWS
- Mastery of Cloud organization management (Organization policies, deny, …)
- Design innovative, resilient, and secure Cloud-native architectures, integrating DevSecOps best practices.
- Develop, test, and maintain disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity.
2. Engineering, Tooling & Infrastructure as Code
- Industrialize and deploy our infrastructures at scale with Terraform.
- Code and develop applications, APIs, and internal orchestration tools in Python by applying software engineering best practices.
- Design automated solutions and consume Serverless-oriented services (Cloud Functions, Lambda).
3. SRE Culture, Observability & FinOps
- Define, monitor, and drive platform reliability indicators: SLO, SLI, and MTTR.
- Follow a FinOps approach to optimize financial efficiency and Cloud resource utilization.
- Perform root cause analysis during major incidents and structure preventive measures.
4. Technical Leadership, Security & Support
- Raise awareness among teams regarding Cloud best practices, write reference documentation, and train the group's technical teams.
- Collaborate closely with SecOps teams for access management, alert handling, and strengthening compliance processes.
- Mentor team engineers and disseminate technical expertise within the communities.
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What you will need to succeed
- Experience: At least 5 years of experience using Cloud concepts and managing multi-cloud organizations, with recognized expertise in GCP or AWS.
- Mandatory Certification: Professional level Cloud certification (GCP Professional Cloud Architect or AWS Professional Solutions Architect).
- IaC & Dev Expertise: Advanced mastery of Terraform, scripting/development (Python, Bash), and Serverless architectures.
- SRE & DevSecOps Practices: Good understanding of FinOps challenges, observability (Opentelemetry, Datadog…), and network/security architectures.
- Soft Skills & Leadership: Curiosity, Teamwork, capacity for innovation, excellent interpersonal skills, customer/user satisfaction-oriented posture, ability to simplify complex subjects.
- Languages: Proficient in English, both spoken and written, C1 level.
- A plus: Knowledge of a European/sovereign Cloud provider.
What we offer
- Team Spirit & Sport: A passionate sporting community and dedicated time for practicing sport.
- Work Environment: Possibility to work in one of the Decathlon Digital offices in Paris or Lille and 2 days of remote work per week.
- Work Equipment: Recent hardware in accordance with your missions and technical needs.
- Opportunities & Mobility: A local team within a global network, offering international career possibilities.
- Professional Development: Continuous support in developing your skills (diversity of projects, certifications, internal and external training…).
- Compensation Package: Attractive package including employee participation in company shares as well as monthly, quarterly, and annual bonuses.
DECATHLON DIGITAL
Imagine if technology allowed us to push boundaries and offer unprecedented sporting experiences. That is precisely our ambition at Decathlon Digital! We are a team of more than 5,000 experts in software engineering, product management, data, cloud, and cybersecurity, spread across Paris, Lille, and Amsterdam. Together, we are creating the largest digital sports platform, leveraging technological innovations to optimize the value chain, design connected experiences, and give a second life to our products.
Let's change the game for good. Our passion for sport guides us and we want it to endure. That is why we are committed to building a more sustainable technological model, by reducing our direct impact on the environment, and by creating a safe and inclusive space to learn and thrive together. Join the team and let's shape the future of sport.
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