(B838) | Lead Cloud Engineer

Concentric Recruitment; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Presencial; EUR 50.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Join a leading company as a Lead Cloud Engineer where you will define and build a resilient and innovative cloud platform. This pivotal role involves leadership in a transformative environment, creating a high-performing team, and influencing cloud strategy across the organization.

Formación

• 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams in cloud environments.
• Extensive experience with AWS or OCI.
• Knowledge of cloud security and governance.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the cloud platform build from a greenfield basis.
• Manage a new cloud engineering team.
• Implement cloud-native tools and DevOps automation.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Cloud Security

Automation

Infrastructure Engineering

Networking

Educación

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Herramientas

AWS

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Terraform

Ansible

Descripción del empleo

Contract Type : Direct hire with our client

What You'll Be Doing

As a Lead Cloud Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in defining, building, and scaling our global cloud platform—starting from a greenfield foundation.

Operating in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, you will influence how cloud technologies are adopted, governed, and optimized across the enterprise.

Your mission is to design and lead the implementation of a resilient, secure, and cost-effective cloud ecosystem.

You'll work cross-functionally to embed best practices, enforce cloud security,

and implement automation across infrastructure and operations.

You will also play a critical role in building and leading a newly forming team as part of a department in recovery mode, offering the unique opportunity to build the cloud platform and the team around you.

Your Role

Act as a technical and strategic leader, spearheading a greenfield platform build.

Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of cloud services ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency.

Build and manage a new 5-person cloud engineering team (including senior, mid, and junior engineers), mentoring talent and fostering a culture of excellence.

Guide the adoption of cloud-native tools, IaC practices (Terraform, Ansible), and DevOps automation pipelines.

Collaborate deeply with key stakeholders : Security, Architecture, Platform Engineering, Development, and SRE teams.

Lead the technical decision-making and cloud enablement strategy to ensure successful and sustainable cloud adoption.

Oversee cloud administration, platform security, and environment lifecycle management.

continuous improvement, and cultural transformation across teams and departments.

What We Look For in You

Leadership & Management

Demonstrated experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams, ideally in environments undergoing transformation.

Strong leadership and mentoring abilities with a hands-on approach.

Proven success in navigating complex stakeholder environments and cross-functional collaboration.

Technical Expertise

2+ years of experience leading and managing high-performing engineering teams, ideally within cloud-focused environments.

Extensive hands-on experience with AWS or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Experience in greenfield cloud builds and complex migrations to cloud environments

Advanced knowledge of cloud security, platform governance, and automation

Drive governance, compliance,

and operational best practices

Skilled in the administration of DevOps pipelines and deployment frameworks

Strong grasp of multi-cloud architectures, hybrid integrations, and security tooling (IAM, encryption, auditing, compliance)

Technical depth in infrastructure engineering, networking (VPC, BGP, DNS), and platform monitoring solutions

Familiarity with tools and techniques to secure and operate cloud

Why this role?

Greenfield build : Shape the platform, tooling, and team from scratch

High visibility across the enterprise with direct influence on long-term cloud strategy

Opportunity to work in a complex and technically demanding environment

Lead a strategic transformation in a recovering department with strong executive support and vision.

What You Need To Do Next

If this role sounds interesting, and you think you have the required experience, please contact me directly.

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Concentric Recruitment is a boutique recruitment firm with clients across Europe.

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