Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer — AWS, Terraform & K8s Automation

GCA Altium; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Altium Limited in Cambridge is seeking a hands-on Cloud DevOps Engineer to build and operate AWS infrastructure, optimize deployment workflows, and automate daily tasks. The role focuses on AWS, Terraform, K8s, and automation to support scalable software development.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience with AWS core services, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling, plus scripting for automation and strong Linux skills.

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).

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

Kubernetes (K8s)

Terraform

CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab)

Linux

Automation scripting (Python/Go/Bash/P

On-call / incident response

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Prometheus

New Relic

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Job description

Altium Limited in Cambridge is seeking a hands-on Cloud DevOps Engineer to build and operate AWS infrastructure, optimize deployment workflows, and automate daily tasks. The role focuses on AWS, Terraform, K8s, and automation to support scalable software development.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience with AWS core services, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tooling, plus scripting for automation and strong Linux skills.