Remote Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Atreides Caseri Inc., Digbeth, Birmingham

Remote Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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Atreides Caseri Inc., Digbeth, Birmingham

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted 4 days ago, 9 Jul | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

Job ref: d7df5cf310494476a4c3f5fef3dfd48f

Location ref: Digbeth, Birmingham

Full Job Description

  • Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure across AWS and potentially Azure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Pulumi and Terraform.
  • Collaborate closely with internal engineering teams to understand product requirements, identify system constraints, and design solutions that balance performance, reliability, and cost.
  • Own AWS EKS clusters and Kubernetes workloads, including autoscaling, FluxCD-based GitOps, Helm charts, and custom SDKs for reusable deployments.
  • Design and manage core cloud services including VPCs, VPNs, IAM, S3, RDS, ECR, load balancing, and network security controls.
  • Build, maintain, and document infrastructure templates and developer enablement tooling so teams can deploy independently.
  • Implement observability and monitoring systems using Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki for infrastructure and application metrics.
  • Establish and contribute to CI/CD best practices using GitHub Actions and related automation pipelines.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and respond to infrastructure alerts, RFIs, and external requests.
  • Author and review technical design documents and proposals for infrastructure initiatives, architecture changes, and new services.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to peers to elevate infrastructure craftsmanship across the organization.
  • Technologies:
  • AWS
  • Architect
  • Azure
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • DevOps
  • Docker
  • EC2
  • Firewall
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • GitOps
  • Grafana
  • Helm
  • IAM
  • Kubernetes
  • Load Balancing
  • Network
  • Prometheus
  • Python
  • Security
  • Terraform
  • TypeScript
  • Backbone

    10+ years of experience in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering roles, including 2+ years in a senior or principal capacity.
  • Proven experience designing and delivering complete cloud infrastructure solutions independently.
  • Expert-level understanding of AWS, including EKS, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, KMS, and Route53.
  • Experience with Azure cloud services such as VMs, networking, AKS, identity, and monitoring is a strong plus.
  • Proficiency with Pulumi (TypeScript or Python) or Terraform.
  • Strong Kubernetes expertise, including workload management, autoscaling, GitOps, FluxCD, Helm, and Kustomize.
  • Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.
  • Skilled in containerization with Docker and maintaining image registries and artifact repositories.
  • Solid understanding of networking and security fundamentals, including VPNs, firewall rules, IAM policies, and encryption.
  • Familiarity with observability and alerting stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
  • Excellent communicator, able to write and present technical designs and proposals clearly.
  • Experience mentoring others and leading by example in fast-paced, high-autonomy environments.
  • Proficiency in Python for automation, scripting, or tooling development; Go experience is a plus.
  • We value friendliness and empathy toward others.

    We are Atreides, a fast-growing, high-performance early-stage company helping organizations transform large, complex multi-modal datasets into information-rich geo-spatial and digital data subscriptions for defense intelligence use cases. We value diversity and inclusion, trust, autonomy, and a mission-driven entrepreneurial mindset. Our team includes technologists, data scientists, and analysts with backgrounds in operational intelligence, law enforcement, large multinationals, and cybersecurity operations. This is a remote UK role, and we offer competitive salary, comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, flexible remote working, flexible hours, work travel opportunities, competitive vacation time, and parental leave.

Direct job link

https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/remote-principal-cloud-infrastructure-engineer-127091274