Cloud Security Lead (DRWN)

Darwin Recruitment; Warszawa; Remote; PLN 364,000 - 728,000; Part time

Job summary

Darwin Recruitment is hiring an Infrastructure & Cloud Security Lead (DRWN) for a fully remote, Europe-based freelance engagement. You will own a growing AWS cloud platform, manage core infrastructure, deployment environments, CI/CD pipelines, and the observability stack, plus cloud security, access control, and networking, while keeping cloud spend under control as volume scales.

The ideal candidate is a senior SRE/Cloud Engineer with hands-on AWS, Kubernetes (ideally EKS), Terraform IaC,

Qualifications

• Senior SRE/Cloud Engineer with hands-on AWS experience.
• Kubernetes in production, ideally on EKS.
• Terraform IaC experience.
• CI/CD pipelines experience.
• Monitoring/observability tooling experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• AWS IAM, secrets management, secure networking knowledge.
• Experience with API gateways.
• Enterprise SaaS tools integrations experience.
• FinOps and cloud cost management.
• Able to work afternoon CET hours for US overlap.
• Nice to have: NIS2 compliance knowledge; LLM tooling exposure.

Responsibilities

• Own a growing AWS cloud platform and core infrastructure.
• Manage developer deployment environments, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack.
• Oversee cloud security, access control, and networking.
• Administer enterprise SaaS tooling and integrations.
• Keep cloud spend under control as service volume scales.

Skills

AWS experience

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

AWS security

API gateways

SaaS admin

FinOps

Afternoon CET overlap

NIS2

LLM tooling

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Infrastructure & Cloud Security Lead (DRWN)

Job title – Infrastructure & Cloud Security Lead

Client Location – Remote, Europe (team based in US time zones)

Remote work offering – 100%

Client Industry – Technology (SaaS / AI)

Contract Length – 3 months (extendable), ongoing part-time engagement

Contract type – Freelance, part-time (approx. 20 hours per week, with overlap into CET afternoons)

Project focus

You will take ownership of a growing AWS cloud platform, looking after the core infrastructure, developer deployment environments, CI/CD pipelines and observability stack. Alongside this you will be responsible for cloud security, access control and networking, administration of enterprise SaaS tooling, and keeping cloud spend under control as service volume scales.

Key skills and Experience required

• Senior SRE or Cloud Engineer background with strong hands-on AWS experience
• Running Kubernetes in production, ideally on EKS
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Monitoring and observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana or Datadog
• AWS security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management and secure networking
• Hands-on experience with API gateways
• Administration of enterprise SaaS tools and integrations (e.g. Google Workspace, HR platforms)
• FinOps and cloud cost management
• Able to work afternoon CET hours to overlap with US-based colleagues
• Nice to have: compliance knowledge such as NIS2, and exposure to agentic or LLM evaluation tooling (LiteLLM, Langfuse, MCP)

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