Cloud Security Lead (DRWN)

Darwin Recruitment; München; Remote; EUR 96,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Darwin Recruitment is seeking an experienced Infrastructure & Cloud Security Lead for a remote, Europe-based freelance role. You will own a growing AWS cloud platform, manage core infrastructure, deployment environments, CI/CD pipelines and observability, while ensuring cloud security and cost controls.

The ideal candidate has senior SRE or cloud engineering background with hands-on AWS, production Kubernetes (preferably EKS), Terraform, CI/CD, and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or

Qualifications

• Senior SRE or Cloud Engineer background with hands-on AWS experience.
• Production Kubernetes experience, preferably EKS.
• Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitoring/observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
• AWS security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, secure networking.
• Hands-on with API gateways.
• Administration of SaaS tooling & integrations.
• FinOps and cloud cost management.
• Must be able to work afternoon CET hours to overlap with US colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Own growing AWS cloud platform, core infrastructure, deployment environments, CI/CD pipelines and observability stack.
• Manage cloud security, access control and networking.
• Oversee enterprise SaaS tooling administration and cost controls as service volume scales.

Skills

Senior SRE

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

IAM & Secrets

Networking

API Gateways

SaaS Tools

FinOps

Cost Management

US Overlap

NIS2 (Nice to have)

Tools

AWS IAM

Terraform

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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