Senior Cloud Engineer

Salary: £47,000 - 87,000 per year

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure or a related field, with at least 3+ years in AWS cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, concepts, and resource management for AWS EKS clusters.
• Strong understanding of AWS core services such as EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Strong knowledge of configuring and maintaining Splunk and Datadog.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Hands-on experience managing and operating EKS cluster environments.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio and integration with Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with Jenkins or similar tools.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash and Python for automation and troubleshooting.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience implementing day-2 operations such as upgrades, backup and restore, and cost optimization.
• Knowledge of container security best practices and tools.
• Knowledge of creating Helm charts.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools using OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity planning for cloud environments.
• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, AWS Security, or DevOps Engineer are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain a robust and scalable AWS cloud infrastructure to support our microservices-based applications.
• Manage our AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Work with AWS services, containerization, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Support and operate EKS cluster environments.
• Configure and maintain observability tools such as Splunk and Datadog.
• Use Terraform or OpenTofu to build and manage infrastructure as code.
• Integrate service mesh technologies such as Istio with Kubernetes.
• Apply CI/CD principles and work with Jenkins or similar tools.
• Automate and troubleshoot using Bash and Python.
• Perform day-2 activities including upgrades, backup and restore, and cost optimization.

Technologies

• AWS
• Architect
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• Datadog
• DevOps
• EC2
• Helm
• IAM
• Istio
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• OpenTelemetry
• Python
• Security
• Splunk
• Terraform
• microservices

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We are Entrust, an industry leader in identity-centric security solutions headquartered in Minnesota and serving over 150 countries with scalable, cutting-edge technologies. We offer a flexible global workplace with remote, hybrid, and on-site options, and we invest in career growth through learning-forward initiatives and exciting challenges. Our culture values collaboration, diversity, inclusion, and respect, with global affinity groups and unconscious bias training helping create a community where everyone can be themselves. This is a full-time Senior Cloud Engineer role based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and we are committed to building a more secure world together.

last updated 35 week of 2026