Principal Consultant Cloud Engineering (L4) – Delivery Team New Clients (m/w/d)

At superluminar GmbH, we offer cloud consulting for companies, startups, and organizations.

We not only understand the latest technologies, we also look at people and processes. Thus, we support organizations in their transition towards modern product development. We work with our customer, not for them.

As a Principal Consultant Cloud Engineering (L4) in our Delivery Team New Clients, you will lead shorter, high-impact cloud engagements and support pre-sales engineering with prototypes, technical discovery, and solution shaping. The focus is on consulting, rapid delivery, and customer enablement, including custom workshops and training to build lasting cloud engineering capabilities within customer teams.

Your salary will be based on your experience and skills, according to our compensation ranges. For a Principal Consultant Cloud Engineering (L4), the compensation range for a full-time position is between 90.000 € and 105.000 € per year.

For details, please refer to our Job role profile: Cloud Consultant Engineering.


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What we offer:

  • Possibility of flexible work arrangements depending on your needs (e.g. part-time)
  • Possibility of remote work from outside your country
  • Budget for your ideal hardware and home office setup
  • Remote first, but you are welcome to use our dog-friendly office
  • Budget for conferences and trainings
  • Employer contribution to a sustainable company pension plan
  • Fully subsidized public transport ticket (“Deutschland-Ticket” or similar)
  • Budget for a bike (purchase or subscription)
  • KITA contribution up to €300 per month

Your profile:

  • You bring extensive experience in cloud engineering and consulting, and you operate confidently at principal level (L4).
  • You have a strong experience delivering short, outcome-focused projects end-to-end with high ownership.
  • You are skilled in rapid prototyping to validate ideas and de-risk customer decisions (e.g., PoCs, MVPs, architecture spikes).
  • You are comfortable in pre-sales engineering: technical discovery, solution design, effort estimation, and clear communication of trade-offs - even when information is incomplete or requirements are still emerging.
  • You thrive in direct customer engagement and can quickly build trust with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • You are solution-oriented, pragmatic, and know when “good enough now” is better than “perfect later.”
  • You proactively spot gaps and create solutions without being asked, for example by creating internal technical guides or tools for recurring customer tasks.
  • You are very familiar with dev and ops worlds: you want to run software as well as develop it.
  • You actively share knowledge, mentor others, and help raise the engineering bar across teams.
  • You are based in Germany, Austria, or Spain.
  • You have a good command of German and English (at least C1), both written and spoken.

Buzzwords:

Here’s a list of things you might come in contact with at our company.

  • AWS, especially large-scale migrations and modernization services
  • Migration tooling such as ADS, Migration Hub, MGN, DMS
  • Modernization approaches (e.g., Containers, Serverless, Managed Databases)
  • RDBMS, e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • CI, CD, and observability such as CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, GitLab, CloudWatch, Prometheus
  • Configuration management tools such as CDK, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Terraform
  • TypeScript, Python, Golang, Kotlin, YAML
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