Cloud DevOps Engineer (AWS, Terraform, K8s, Automation) - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Originally posted 17 September 2026 by the employer — open 0 days.
About the role
This role involves building and operating AWS infrastructure, improving deployment workflows, and automating day-to-day operations. It is hands-on, focused on AWS, Terraform, and K8s.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure for production and non-production environments.
- Develop and own Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Operate and support K8s (EKS) workloads including deployments, scaling, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
- Implement automation and tooling in Python, Go, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Improve monitoring and alerting for AWS and K8s.
What you'll need
- 6+ years of hands-on DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure experience.
- Strong AWS experience, including EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, Route 53, VPC networking.
- Strong Terraform experience.
- Strong knowledge of K8s fundamentals (networking, workloads, ingress, scaling, troubleshooting).
- Experience with CI/CD systems: Jenkins / GitLab CI (or equivalent).
- Solid Linux skills.
- Ability to write and maintain automation scripts/tools (Python/Go/Bash/PowerShell).
- Understanding of SDLC and microservices deployment patterns.
Nice to have
- AWS CDK (TypeScript/Python)/CloudFormation.
- Jenkins.
- Experience with Lambda, OpenSearch, Redis, AMQ, MySQL, FSx.
- Strong AWS networking/security experience (Transit Gateway, VPC peering, routing, SG/NACL).
- AD/DNS/domain fundamentals.
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 44-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
849
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Median days open
44 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (849 roles · 87 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 32 | 849 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 127 | 5791 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 24 d | 44 d (−20 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 243 open roles · median 35 d
- Qualcomm · 59 open roles · median 70 d
- AMD · 40 open roles · median 28 d
- Graphcore · 40 open roles · median 84 d
- Cerebras · 38 open roles · median 52 d
- Micron Technology · 28 open roles · median 50 d
How we counted: 849 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 87 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.