Sophos

Senior Cloud Software Engineer

Sophos • HU
Python Remote
About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer to design, build, and maintain our globally distributed, high-scale Intelix cloud services. You will drive development, automation, reliability, and operational excellence across our AWS-based infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, enabling safe, seamless, and frequent releases. 

You’ll work as part of a small, autonomous agile team with a strong focus on open communication, quality, and continuous improvement—both in our products and in your own professional growth. Our stack primarily uses Linux, Python, and AWS technologies. 

Work is primarily remote, with occasional in-person team and social events. 

What you will do

  • Participate in the full development lifecycle: planning, development, testing, automation, releases, and ongoing maintenance (YBIYRI) 
  • Implement observability, monitoring, alerting, and automated rollback strategies for safe rollouts 
  • Collaborate effectively, proactively removing impediments and supporting team progress 
  • Manage, scale, and optimize AWS-based infrastructure 
  • Build and maintain deployment workflows ensuring zero downtime for stateless, high-volume services 
  • Drive automation in scaling, configuration management, and release processes 
  • Mentor and support junior engineers 
  • What you will bring

  • Full English proficiency, spoken and written 
  • Minimum 2 years of Python development experience 
  • Proven ability to deliver reliable, maintainable, well-tested code 
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and modern deployment practices 
  • Experience with container technologies (Kubernetes is a plus) 
  • Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud architectures 
  • Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, or similar) 
  • Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills 
  • Curiosity and ability to learn new technologies quickly 

  • Desirable
  • Experience as a Team Lead or Scrum Master 
  • Leveraging AI in development
  • Understanding of stateless architectures and high-volume scaling strategies
  • Infrastructure as Code experience (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)
  • Background in monitoring, logging, and incident response
  • Knowledge of cloud security best practices 
  • Experience with high-scale, low-latency distributed systems 
  • Familiarity with chaos engineering and advanced resiliency testing