Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer: AWS, Terraform, K8s

Altium

Cambourne

On-site

GBP 70,000 - 110,000

Full time

6 days ago

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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.