Lead Cloud Engineer - Fintech

buscojobs España; País Vasco; A distancia; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Una empresa en plena transformación busca un Lead Cloud Engineer para construir y escalar su plataforma cloud desde zero. Este rol es esencial para establecer soluciones en la nube que realcen la seguridad, la eficiencia y la innovación, mientras se lidera a un equipo en un entorno dinámico y desafiante.

Formación

• 2+ años de experiencia liderando equipos de ingeniería de alto rendimiento.
• Experiencia en construcción de plataformas en la nube y migraciones complejas.
• Conocimiento avanzado en seguridad de la nube y gobernanza de plataformas.

Responsabilidades

• Diseñar y liderar la implementación de un ecosistema en la nube seguro y eficiente.
• Construir y gestionar un nuevo equipo de ingeniería en la nube.
• Guía de adopción de herramientas nativas de la nube y prácticas de IaC.

Conocimientos

Cloud security

Infrastructure engineering

DevOps automation

Team leadership

Cloud migration

Herramientas

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Descripción del empleo

Job Title : Lead Cloud Engineer Company Type : End Client

Employment Type : Full-Time

Remote in Spain

Contract Type : Direct hire with our client

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.

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.

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.

Champion agile delivery, continuous improvement, and cultural transformation across teams and departments.

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

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

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

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