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Senior Cloud Engineer

Oxford Nanopore Technologies · Oxford, ENG, United Kingdom
Oxford, ENG, United KingdomOnsite
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Oxford, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

Design, maintain, and optimize cloud environments using AWS services and Terraform. Support Docker-based workloads, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and manage secrets with HashiCorp Vault. Collaborate with development and product teams to ensure operational excellence.

Qualifications

  • Expertise with AWS production-level experience across core services (RDS, ECS, S3, Lambda, IAM, networking).
  • Proficiency with Terraform, including module creation, state management, and complex multi-environment setups.
  • Experience with Docker and container lifecycle management.
  • Strong understanding of GitLab CI/CD, pipelines, runners, and deployment patterns.
  • Experience with HashiCorp Vault for secrets and policy management.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively and independently.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, maintain, and optimize cloud environments using AWS services such as RDS, ECS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and VPC.
  • Build, maintain, and improve Terraform modules; enforce Infrastructure as Code best practices; manage multi-environment deployments.
  • Support and enhance Docker-based workloads and ECS deployments.
  • Contribute to GitLab CI pipelines and deployment workflows.
  • Manage and improve secret storage and access patterns using HashiCorp Vault.
  • Develop automation scripts and tooling, ideally in Python.
  • Work closely with developers and product teams to support delivery and improve operational excellence.

Skills

AWSCloudWatchDockerECSGitLabGitLab CIGrafanaIAMAWS LambdaPrometheusPythonS3TerraformVault

Relocation

No