Senior Cloud Engineer

The role is within a pharmaceutical industry project focused on cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices. The position involves designing, building, and operating internal automation platforms supporting multi-cloud virtual machine provisioning and operating system golden image pipelines across Azure and AWS in a regulated environment with strict compliance, security, and audit requirements.

• 4+ years of experience in cloud engineering or a similar role.
• Strong proficiency in both AWS and Azure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash/Shell, and PowerShell.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and operational ownership.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have:

• Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, or similar.
• Experience with ServiceNow, CMDB integrations, GitHub Actions, Azure Arc, Packer, Bicep, Ansible, or Azure Durable Functions.
• Experience with OS hardening, golden image engineering, and enterprise patching processes.

Multi-Cloud VM Provisioning:

• Design and maintain fully automated and auditable VM provisioning workflows across Azure and AWS.
• Work in a multi-account and multi-environment cloud setup.
• Own end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, from ServiceNow RITM intake to deployed and CMDB-registered virtual machines.
• Develop and maintain Python service applications responsible for request transformation, validation, multi-cloud account verification, and CMDB integration.
• Author and maintain Terraform configurations for VM provisioning, account initialisation, and management infrastructure.
• Maintain cross-account OIDC federation across GitHub Actions, AWS IAM, and Azure Entra ID.
• Operate event-driven provisioning automation.
• Extend post-processing automation using Ansible.
• Handle ServiceNow incidents and maintain platform reliability.

OS Golden Image Engineering:

• Design, build, and harden operating system golden images for Azure and AWS.
• Support multiple operating system families, including Windows, RHEL, and Ubuntu.
• Author and maintain Packer templates for simultaneous multi-region image creation.

100% remote work with occasional business trips (max twice a year) to Denmark. Contract type is B2B until the end of the year with possible extensions.