Senior Cloud Engineer (AWS / Java) – Remote

About the role

Smart Working offers a full-time, long-term remote position for a Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer. You will take ownership of improving and scaling a cloud-agnostic AWS platform while contributing to backend services and new product functionality. The focus is on infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, software supply-chain security, monitoring and alerting, and backend capabilities for access control, metrics ingestion and multi-tenancy. Frontend experience is beneficial but not essential.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Own and optimise CI/CD pipelines, mainly with GitHub Actions and Jenkins integrations
• Implement software supply-chain security, including SBOMs, container image signing and verification
• Improve AWS monitoring, alerting and operational visibility
• Manage Docker-based deployments and orchestration with ECS and/or Kubernetes, including ECS Anywhere on self-managed EC2
• Develop and enhance Java-based backend microservices, including RBAC, metrics ingestion and multi-tenancy
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and CI/CD failures independently, and support cloud and on-premises environments
• Contribute to cloud cost optimisation, platform reliability and security, and propose technical improvements

Required profile

• 5 years of senior-level hands-on experience in cloud, platform or DevOps engineering, able to own infrastructure and backend work
• 3 years of experience with Java-based backend services or equivalent expertise
• Ability to work independently, take ownership of technical decisions and collaborate constructively

Required skills

• AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, Lambda)
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions (GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins acceptable)
• Software supply-chain security (SBOMs, signed container images)
• Docker, ECS and/or Kubernetes
• Monitoring and alerting