Cloud Security Lead (DRWN)

Darwin Recruitment; Frankfurt; Remote; EUR 83,000 - 138,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work 100%

Part-time engagement (~20 hours/week)

Job summary

Darwin Recruitment is seeking an Infrastructure & Cloud Security Lead to own a growing AWS platform, manage core infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and the observability stack.

You will oversee cloud security, IAM, networking, and FinOps while aligning with US-based teams in CET overlap; this is a remote, Europe-based, freelance 3-month engagement (approx. 20 hours/week) with potential extension.

Qualifications

• Senior SRE/Cloud Engineer with hands-on AWS experience
• Production Kubernetes (EKS) experience
• IaC with Terraform required
• CI/CD pipelines experience
• Observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog)
• AWS IAM, secrets management, secure networking
• API gateways experience
• Enterprise SaaS tooling integrations
• Cost management (FinOps)
• NIS2 compliance knowledge is a plus
• Experience with LiteLLM/Langfuse/MCP tools is beneficial

Responsibilities

• Own AWS cloud platform infrastructure and core services
• Manage deployment environments and CI/CD pipelines
• Oversee cloud security, IAM, networking and secrets management
• Administer enterprise SaaS tooling integrations
• Control cloud spend as service volume scales
• Coordinate with US-based team during CET overlap

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

CI/CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

IAM

Secrets management

Networking

API Gateways

SaaS tooling

FinOps

NIS2

LiteLLM

Langfuse

MCP

Job description

Infrastructure & Cloud Security Lead (DRWN)

Job title – Infrastructure & Cloud Security Lead

Client Location – Remote, Europe (team based in US time zones)

Remote work offering – 100%

Client Industry – Technology (SaaS / AI)

Contract Length – 3 months (extendable), ongoing part-time engagement

Contract type – Freelance, part-time (approx. 20 hours per week, with overlap into CET afternoons)

Project focus

You will take ownership of a growing AWS cloud platform, looking after the core infrastructure, developer deployment environments, CI/CD pipelines and observability stack. Alongside this you will be responsible for cloud security, access control and networking, administration of enterprise SaaS tooling, and keeping cloud spend under control as service volume scales.

Key skills and Experience required

• Senior SRE or Cloud Engineer background with strong hands-on AWS experience
• Running Kubernetes in production, ideally on EKS
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Monitoring and observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana or Datadog
• AWS security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management and secure networking
• Hands-on experience with API gateways
• Administration of enterprise SaaS tools and integrations (e.g. Google Workspace, HR platforms)
• FinOps and cloud cost management
• Able to work afternoon CET hours to overlap with US-based colleagues
• Nice to have: compliance knowledge such as NIS2, and exposure to agentic or LLM evaluation tooling (LiteLLM, Langfuse, MCP)

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