Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS, Terraform, K8s & Automation

Altium; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Altium is hiring a Cloud DevOps Engineer to build and operate AWS infrastructure, improve deployment workflows, and automate day-to-day operations from our Cambridge location.

You will own IaC with Terraform, manage EKS workloads, enhance CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab CI), and develop automation scripts in Python/Go. Occasional on-call rotation and collaboration with global teams are expected.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on DevOps/cloud infra experience.
• Strong AWS core services (EC2/EKS/ECS/RDS/S3/Route53/VPC).
• Terraform expertise and IaC focus.

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

DevOps experience

AWS experience

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Automation scripting

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Job description

Altium is hiring a Cloud DevOps Engineer to build and operate AWS infrastructure, improve deployment workflows, and automate day-to-day operations from our Cambridge location.

You will own IaC with Terraform, manage EKS workloads, enhance CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab CI), and develop automation scripts in Python/Go. Occasional on-call rotation and collaboration with global teams are expected.