Senior Cloud Engineer

Luxoft; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with hands-on AWS expertise to join our Cloud Engineering team. You will design, implement, and operate highly available cloud platforms, focusing on automation, reliability, security, and observability to support critical business services.

You will work across EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, VPC, Kafka/MSK, OpenSearch, and CloudWatch, building CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes environments while driving cost optimisation and disaster recovery planning.

Qualifications

• Senior cloud engineer with hands-on AWS expertise and Terraform IaC experience.
• Experience designing, building, and operating highly available cloud platforms.
• Strong automation, DevOps and SRE practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Manage and optimise services including EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, VPC, MSK/Kafka, OpenSearch and CloudWatch.
• Develop automation using Terraform, Python and Shell scripting.

Skills

DevOps mindset

SRE practices

Production incident management

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Python

Shell scripting

CI/CD

Kubernetes

OpenSearch

CloudWatch

Splunk

EC2

EKS

ECS

Kafka

MSK

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer with strong hands-on AWS expertise to join a growing Cloud Engineering team responsible for building, automating, securing, and operating highly available cloud platforms. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex production challenges, driving automation, and improving platform reliability through modern DevOps and SRE practices.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and support AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.


• Manage and optimise services including EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, VPC, MSK/Kafka, OpenSearch and CloudWatch.


• Develop automation using Terraform, Python and Shell scripting.


• Build and support CI/CD pipelines, container platforms and Kubernetes environments.


• Implement monitoring, observability, alerting and automated remediation capabilities.


• Lead production incident resolution, root cause analysis and reliability improvement initiatives.


• Drive cloud security, compliance, disaster recovery and resilience programmes.


• Identify performance improvements and cloud cost optimisation opportunities.


• AWS architecture, networking and security


• Terraform & Infrastructure as Code


• Python and Shell scripting


• CI/CD, DevOps and SRE practices


• Splunk, CloudWatch and observability tooling


• High-severity incident management and RCA


• Disaster Recovery, BCP and resilience planning

Nice to Have

• AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer)


• OpenTelemetry


• Kafka/MSK


• Hybrid cloud environments


• AWS migration and modernisation projects


• FinOps and cloud cost optimisation initiatives


• Experience using GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude

Why Apply?

Join a team where you'll have real ownership of cloud platforms, influence technical direction, and help build highly resilient, secure, and automated AWS environments supporting business-critical services.