Cloud Devops Engineer (Aws, Terraform, K8S, Automation)

Altium; Cambourne; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Altium is hiring a Cloud DevOps Engineer to build and operate the AWS infrastructure, enhance deployment workflows, and automate day-to-day operations. The role is hands-on, focusing on AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and automation.

You will own IaC with Terraform, run EKS workloads, improve CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or GitLab CI, and write automation in Python/Go/Bash/PowerShell. You will participate in on-call rotations and drive reliability improvements across production and non-production

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure experience.
• Strong AWS experience, including core services: EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, Route 53, VPC networking.
• Strong Terraform experience.
• Strong knowledge of K8s fundamentals (networking, workloads, ingress, scaling, troubleshooting).
• Experience with CI/CD systems: Jenkins / GitLab CI (or equivalent).
• Solid Linux skills; Windows experience is a plus.
• Ability to write and maintain automation scripts/tools (Python/Go/Bash/PowerShell).
• Understanding of SDLC and microservices deployment patterns.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure for production and non-production environments.
• Develop and own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Operate and support K8s (EKS) workloads: deployments, scaling, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and release automation (Jenkins/GitLab CI).
• Implement automation and tooling in Python / Go / Bash / PowerShell to reduce manual work.
• Improve monitoring and alerting for AWS and K8s (Prometheus/New Relic).
• Participate in on-call rotation and drive operational improvements after incidents.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

Automation scripts

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

We are hiring a Cloud DevOps Engineer to build and operate our AWS infrastructure, improve deployment workflows, and automate day-to-day operations. This role is hands-on, focused on AWS, Terraform, K8s, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure for production and non-production environments.
• Develop and own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Operate and support K8s (EKS) workloads: deployments, scaling, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and release automation (Jenkins/GitLab CI).
• Implement automation and tooling in Python / Go / Bash / PowerShell to reduce manual work.
• Improve monitoring and alerting for AWS and K8s (Prometheus/New Relic).
• Participate in on-call rotation and drive operational improvements after incidents.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of hands-on DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure experience.
• Strong AWS experience, including core services: EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, Route 53, VPC networking.
• Strong Terraform experience.
• Strong knowledge of K8s fundamentals (networking, workloads, ingress, scaling, troubleshooting).
• Experience with CI/CD systems: Jenkins / GitLab CI (or equivalent).
• Solid Linux skills; Windows experience is a plus.
• Ability to write and maintain automation scripts/tools (Python/Go/Bash/PowerShell).
• Understanding of SDLC and microservices deployment patterns.

Nice to Have:

• AWS CDK (TypeScript/Python)/CloudFormation.
• Jenkins.
• Experience with Lambda, OpenSearch, Redis, AMQ, MySQL, FSx.
• Strong AWS networking/security experience (Transit Gateway, VPC peering, routing, SG/NACL).

Additional Information

Altium Limited, a part of the Renesas Group and headquartered in San Diego, California, is a global software company accelerating the pace of electronics innovation. We are redefining electronic product creation in a software-defined world with our industry-first cloud-based platform that unites every stakeholder and phase of electronics development.

From startups to world’s technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before. At Altium, our teams are empowered to innovate, collaborate globally, and help create the future of electronics development.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.