Cloud Engineer with Golden Image or Packer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer to join a highly technical infrastructure and security-focused team responsible for designing, building, and operating internal automation platforms for public cloud virtual machines. This role involves building and maintaining multi-cloud VM provisioning across Azure and AWS, and OS golden image creation, hardening, distribution, and patching.

• Designing and maintaining fully automated VM provisioning workflows across Azure and AWS.
• Owning end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, from request intake to deployed and CMDB-registered virtual machines.
• Developing and maintaining Python-based service applications for request validation, transformation, cloud account verification, and CMDB integration.
• Creating and maintaining Terraform configurations for VM provisioning, account initialization, and management infrastructure.
• Maintaining secure CI/CD authentication and cross-account OIDC federation across GitHub Actions, AWS IAM, and Azure Entra ID.
• Supporting event-driven provisioning automation using AWS EventBridge, Lambda, and GitHub dispatch workflows.
• Extending post-provisioning automation with Ansible for Linux and PowerShell for Windows.
• Designing, building, and hardening OS golden images for Azure and AWS.
• Creating and maintaining Packer templates for multi-region image creation across Europe, the US, and China.
• Implementing Windows and Linux hardening, including compliance agents, domain integration, patching, and security configuration.
• Supporting Azure patching and compliance automation across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Handling incidents and ensuring platform reliability across multiple environments.

• Minimum 3 years of experience in cloud engineering or a similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience with both AWS and Azure.
• Production experience with Terraform at scale.
• Hands-on experience with Packer and golden image engineering.
• Experience with Ansible for post-provisioning automation.
• Knowledge of modern CI/CD authentication patterns, including OIDC-based federation.
• Good scripting skills in Python, Bash/Shell, and PowerShell.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Strong understanding of secure, reliable, and auditable cloud infrastructure.
• Good communication skills, ownership mindset, and attention to detail.

• Project details: 2-3 days per week from the office (Warsaw), the rest remotely
• Business trips: occasional, max twice a year to Denmark
• Contract: B2B, till the end of the year + possible extensions