Cloud Automation Engineer

Location: Europe | Remote / Hybrid
Contract Duration: 12 months
Rate:?250 - 300 per day

The Opportunity

We are currently supporting a leading global technology organisation that is looking for an experienced Cloud Automation Engineer to join its Global Product Engineering team, working on a secure, enterprise-scale Digital Experience Platform (DXP).

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on cloud automation, Kubernetes infrastructure, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps. You will work closely with software engineers, cloud architects and product teams to build highly automated deployment processes and maintain resilient multi-cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain highly automated GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• Automate container builds, releases and progressive deployments using Docker, Helm and Terraform
• Manage and optimise enterprise Kubernetes environments, including AWS EKS, Google GKE or Azure AKS
• Design and provision scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Helm
• Support microservices across development, QA, staging and production environments
• Implement and maintain observability using Grafana, Datadog and Prometheus
• Configure monitoring, alerting and incident management using tools such as OpsGenie
• Support production incident resolution, escalation and troubleshooting
• Develop and test disaster recovery and infrastructure resilience processes
• Embed DevSecOps and Security by Design principles into cloud and deployment automation
• Implement automated security checks, vulnerability scanning and compliance controls
• Support cloud cost optimisation and resource governance
• Contribute to technical design discussions, sprint planning and Agile ceremonies
• Conduct code reviews and help promote DevOps best practices across engineering teams

Essential Technical Experience

Cloud & Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience managing enterprise Kubernetes infrastructure
• Experience with EKS, GKE or AKS
• Strong Docker/containerisation experience

Infrastructure as Code

• Hands-on experience with Terraform
• Strong experience creating and maintaining Terraform modules
• Practical experience with Helm charts

CI/CD

• Strong experience designing and managing GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins
• Experience with GitLab runners and automated deployment pipelines
• Experience with Git and artifact repositories such as Artifactory

Automation & Scripting

• Strong Python, Bash or Linux shell scripting skills
• Experience automating operational and infrastructure processes

Monitoring & Reliability

• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus and/or Datadog
• Experience implementing dashboards, logging, metrics, tracing and alerting
• Production troubleshooting and incident response experience

Security

• Understanding of IAM and cloud network security
• Experience with vulnerability scanning and security automation
• Knowledge of SOC/ISO, NIST and GDPR requirements

Cloud/DevOps certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) are highly desirable.