It's a new day with a new opportunity at 8am! About the role: 8am is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help us build and maintain our next-generation platform. You will be a member of the Platform Engineering Organization, which is responsible for the software and infrastructure management focusing on availability, performance and security of core service layers supporting our payments platform and practice management software. We serve over 200,000 legal professionals and process over $18 billion in payments every year! You will work closely with our development teams to ensure they have the tools needed to build, test, and deploy code with ease and ensure software and quality engineer success. You will engineer and maintain configuration management environments, software delivery pipelines, IaC processes, technical governance and observability tools among other areas of platform availability. This role is hired through an Employer of Record (EOR) partner in the Czech Republic. About us: 8am builds software that helps professionals run stronger businesses. Our platform powers payments, client experience, and operational workflows for legal, accounting, and other service-based businesses. U.S. based professionals count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters. More than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. rely on our products every day. As we continue to grow, we’re investing in the next generation of our platform and are looking for experienced engineers who want to help shape its future. What you'll do: - Automate deployment, monitoring, and management for 100% AWS cloud based infrastructure - Develop, implement and own developer focused internal tooling and automation as your product - Share in new feature design as the cloud SME supporting container/k8s first designs - Create and maintain automated Ci/CD pipelines that streamline the release process and ensure high-quality code is delivered rapidly and continuously in a safe and compliant manner - Develop, manage and enhance the Internal Developer and Production Platforms achieving maximum availability and stability metrics - Collaborate with developers to identify pain points and bottlenecks in the development process and design and implement solutions that improve the developer experience and increase overall productivity - Put together comprehensive onboarding programs and training resources to seamlessly integrate new developers into the organization - Participate in an on-call rotation and provide emergency support occasionally outside of normally scheduled hours as needed - Evolve and extend observability tools and systems to determine and resolve performance and usability issues About you: - 5+ years of professional technical experience in software engineering, AWS cloud operations or a related function. - 3+ years of experience within a DevOps, INF or Platform Engineering role - Experience implementing and maintaining kubernetes specific Ci/CD pipelines using CircleCI (preferred), ArgoCD (preferred), Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab, Azure Devops, etc. - Experience creating internal tooling that supports developer productivity - Experience designing and implementing automated development environments - Documented experience provisioning and managing infrastructure in a public cloud environment such as AWS (heavily preferred), Google Cloud Platform, or Azure - Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker, OCI, LXC and ability to administer, build and deploy images in an automated manner. - Solid understanding of how a Kubernetes platform operates (service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing) - Proficiency in at least one, ideally more of the following programming or scripting languages: Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript (NodeJS), Bash - Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code to provision and maintain infrastructure: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation - Working understanding of relational database systems such as MySQL (preferred) and PostgreSQL - Experience with Kafka on an MSK environment is a plus - Experience with ElasticSearch is a plus - Experience with generative and agentic AI in an infrastructure management and implementation perspective is a plus - Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience). - Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation. - This position is preferably based in Brno, Czech Republic Why join our new 8am Brno hub? - Founding Team Impact: Be a founding engineer of our new Brno R&D hub. After a brief 1-6 month integration with U.S. based teams, you will help form fully autonomous, locally-led squads with clear paths to Staff and leadership roles - Drive our "AI-First" Transformation: We are building a secure, massive-scale "Unified AI Platform". Depending on your squad, you will either help architect this core infrastructure (LLM routing, RAG, agent orchestration) or build directly on top of it. - Build the Next Generation of Our Platform: Help shape the systems powering products used by more than 250,000 professionals. You’ll work on complex platform capabilities across payments, workflow automation, and AI-powered features as we expand into new professional service markets. Benefits and Perks We offer a competitive, locally relevant benefits package designed to support your life in the Czech Republic while giving you access to global opportunities: - Flexible Time Off (FTO) and 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar - Paid sick leave with additional support through the Czech social security system - Maternity, paternity, and parental leave in line with Czech regulations, plus additional paid paternity leave from 8am - Full statutory benefits, including public health insurance, social security, pension, and work accident coverage - Possible performance bonus opportunities in the future and employee referral rewards Grow Your Career - Access to Coursera (including Gen AI Academy) and ongoing professional development - Clear growth paths, regular feedback, and opportunities for advancement What Makes 8am Different: - International company environment with collaboration across Europe and the U.S. - Opportunities to travel for company events (including potential U.S. visits) - Engaging team culture with local events, outings, and community initiatives - High-quality company swag and programs focused on wellness, learning, and connection Diversity, equity & inclusion at 8am: At 8am, we recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. Experience comes in many forms and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we continue to learn from each other is an integral part of our culture. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach. Security advisory: Our hiring teams at 8am are dedicated to recruiting top talent that share our passion for serving the professional services industry through innovative financial technology. As such, our Talent Acquisition Team only follows legitimate hiring practices. We will always communicate with our candidates using emails with the 8am domain and will never ask for sensitive/personal data during the application process. All interviews take place over phone call, Zoom/Google Meet or in person. All offers are communicated verbally by our Talent Acquisition Specialists with a written offer letter as a follow up.

• Lead AWS cloud architecture and platform design for scalability, security, and high availability • Own AWS infrastructure, networking, identity, and managed services • Enable and govern CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation • Drive Infrastructure as Code using Terraform • Ensure platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, and incident management • Define cloud standards, guardrails, and best practices • Guide teams on cost optimisation, performance, and capacity planning • Mentor and lead cloud and DevOps engineers • Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and security stakeholders At Zensar, we’re “experience-led everything”. We are committed to conceptualizing, designing, engineering, marketing, and managing digital solutions and experiences for over 130 leading enterprises. We are a company driven by a bold purpose: Together, we shape experiences for better futures. Whether for our clients, our people, or the world around us, this belief powers everything we do. At the heart of our culture is ONE with Client - a set of four core values that reflect who we are and how we work: One Zensar, Nurturing, Empowering, and Client Focus. Part of the $4.8 billion RPG Group, we’re a community of 10,000+ innovators across 30+ global locations, including Milpitas, Seattle, Princeton, Cape Town, London, Zurich, Singapore, and Mexico City. Explore Life at Zensar and join us to Grow. Own. Achieve. Learn. to be the best version of yourself. We believe the best work happens when individuality is celebrated, growth is encouraged, and well-being is prioritized. We are an equal employment opportunity (EEO) and affirmative action employer, committed to creating an inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, family medical leave status, or protected veteran status.

• Design, develop, and manage a highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure to support our SaaS product, ensuring best practices in security and efficiency. • Participate in the implementation of state-of-the-art cloud services and solutions, including serverless architectures, containerization, and orchestration technologies. • Collaborate with development teams to facilitate continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes, enhancing deployment strategies and automation. • Collaborate with team members and strategic stakeholders, and foster a culture of continuous learning in your role. • Research and integrate emerging cloud technologies and tools, contributing to the continuous improvement of our cloud environment and practices.

Mission Summary: We are seeking a capable and highly motivated Engineer for our Developer Platform team to enable rapid and safe software delivery by providing a unified, efficient and reliable platform for all developers at Motional. You will join a talented team of engineers that focuses on improving the engineering experience and developer productivity of teams in Motional by providing them with the necessary tools and processes. You will collaborate closely with teams across the organization to identify pain points and drive initiatives that empower teams to deliver on Motional’s mission. Your main focus will be on our real-time data pipeline which enables our AVs to communicate with our cloud services such as Command Center, Over-The-Air update systems, and ride hailing partners integration. This is a remote-first position based anywhere in the U.S. What you'll do: - Design, build, document, test, and maintain network, compute, and storage infrastructure of our cloud platform for the AV fleet. - Monitor, support, and resolve issues as they arise in production. - Assist with high-level analysis, system design, and code reviews. - Communicate with stakeholders and team leads to identify system requirements. What you'll be working on: - Observability systems, CI/CD pipelines for integrations with ride hailing partners like Uber and Lyft. - Cost Optimizations, Performance Optimizations, Security Improvements of Cloud Systems. - Automation, services and LLM-integrated bots to reduce developer toil. What you bring: - 2+ years of professional work experience as a Software Engineer/DevOps in designing and building distributed systems. - Experience with Golang / Python. - Experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, VPC, S3, IAM, IOT). - Knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g. GitLab CI, Jenkins). - Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). - Comfortable taking projects from ideation through to completion, with strong communication and collaboration across multiple international teams. - Comfortable working in a fast-paced, continuous delivery environment. Bonus points for experience with: - Working with a globally distributed team. - Experience with serverless architectures, building systems using SQL and NoSQL databases. - Experience with time-series databases and monitoring tools (Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Redash). - Experience with GenAI solutions (Q Developer/Business, Gemini). - Experience in Site Reliability Engineering. - Experience with error monitoring software (Sentry, Incident.io). The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process. Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s benefits program. Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more. Salary Range $123,000—$163,500 USD Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more. Our journey is always people first. We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move. Higher purpose, greater impact. We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do. Scale up, not starting up. Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges. Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube. Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.