Remote Cloud Infra Engineer - AWS, Terraform, Python

Black Pen Recruitment; City Of London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist software vendor is seeking remote mid-to-senior software engineers or infrastructure specialists to work on complex, business-critical managed services. Candidates will apply expertise in infrastructure engineering and automation within a distributed work environment. Strong skills in Python, Linux administration, and tools like Terraform and Ansible are essential. Experience with cloud platforms and CI/CD tooling is also required, with a strong emphasis on security best practices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex infrastructure and automation projects.
• Background in financial services infrastructure is advantageous but not required.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate a complex managed service used by hundreds of users.
• Work on CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration.
• Maintain and evolve a cloud-hosted environment to meet high performance standards.

Skills

Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)

Configuration management with Ansible

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)

Containerization (LXC, LXD, Docker, Kubernetes)

CI/CD tooling (TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Server monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Datadog)

Strong Python programming skills

Solid Linux administration

Networking knowledge

Understanding of infrastructure security best practices

Job description

A specialist software vendor is seeking remote mid-to-senior software engineers or infrastructure specialists to work on complex, business-critical managed services. Candidates will apply expertise in infrastructure engineering and automation within a distributed work environment. Strong skills in Python, Linux administration, and tools like Terraform and Ansible are essential. Experience with cloud platforms and CI/CD tooling is also required, with a strong emphasis on security best practices.