Cloud Engineering Team Lead

Capital on Tap

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare including dental/ey

Annual learning budget

Dog-friendly offices

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loan

Office snacks and beverages

Job summary

Capital on Tap in London (Old Street) seeks a senior Cloud Engineer to lead core infrastructure and standards across our global engineering effort. You will mentor engineers, drive performance, and champion DevSecOps from the front while collaborating with Product, Engineering Managers and QA to deliver scalable cloud solutions.

Hands-on leadership, IaC with Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines are essential as we balance speed, quality, and security in a hybrid London setting.

Qualifications

Experience leading complex cloud projects.
Strong mentorship and people management skills.
Extensive experience with public cloud environments.
Proficiency with Terraform and IaC practices.

Responsibilities

Provide mentorship and constructive feedback to engineers to support growth.
Drive team performance by removing bottlenecks and ensuring delivery.
Lead adoption of AI within the team for operations and projects.
Foster open communication across remote, hybrid, and in-person environments.
Stay hands-on in cloud engineering and lead by example.
Define and enforce cloud engineering best practices for scalability and reliability.
Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and QA to align strategy and deliver outcomes.
Contribute cloud perspective to product decisions balancing speed and quality.
Identify and mitigate risks before they block progress.
Embed DevSecOps principles across security, monitoring, and automation.

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Cloud leadership

Mentorship

Public cloud

IaC

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

We’re Capital on Tap Capital on Tap started because small businesses were underserved. Big banks were slow, their products weren't fit for purpose, and small business owners often couldn't access what they needed. We set out to fix that. Today we're a financial platform - not just a credit card company. We offer a best-in-class business credit card, SME-focused spend management platform, a savings product that hit £1 billion in funds within its first year, and a growing suite of tools and financial products that make running a small business easier. 1,000+ employees, £20bn in annual card spend, 200,000+ customers, 17,000+ Trustpilot reviews averaging 4.7 stars, and we're profitable. We’ve done a pretty good job so far, but we’re just getting started!

London (Old Street) | 2 Days in the Office

Cloud Engineering

Cloud Engineering owns the foundations of Capital on Tap's global engineering effort - the core infrastructure, tooling, and standards everything else is built on. We aren't just running a platform; we're pushing the technical limits of what cloud infrastructure can achieve

What you’ll be doing

Champion a culture of continuous improvement, providing meaningful mentorship and constructive feedback that helps engineers grow.
Driving team performance by resolving bottlenecks, fostering accountability, and sustaining high engagement to ensure consistent delivery & resource efficiency.
Driving the adoption of AI within the team, ranging from day to day operations to large scale projects.
Foster open, transparent communication across remote, hybrid, and in-person environments.
Stay hands on in cloud engineering, leading by example at a technical level.
Defining and enforcing cloud engineering best practices that ensure consistency, scalability and operational excellence across the organisation.
Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and QA to align strategy and turn ideas into well-executed outcomes.
Contribute to product decisions, bringing a cloud perspective that balances speed, quality and scalability.
Proactively identify and mitigate risk before they come blockers.
Embed DevSecOps principles; ensuring security, monitoring, compliance, and automation are built in from the start.

Our Values & Culture

Just Pilot: We never settle for “good enough”. We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly. Why Not Today? Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage. Be a Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team, we do the right thing even if it’s hard. Owners and Dates: We don’t chase people. If you own a task and agree to a date, the expectation is that it gets done. Feedback: We want our employees to flourish, so we regularly provide direct and constructive feedback.

What are we looking for

A track record of leading and delivering complex projects.
Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and the appetite to own the full management remit, from hiring and development through to the harder people conversations.
Extensive experience managing public cloud environments.
Proficient in contributing to IaC technologies involving expertise in writing, managing, and optimising infrastructure with tools such as Terraform.
Experience using CI/CD tools, building pipelines, templates and troubleshooting.
Experience with applying high availability across cloud architectures, ideally including multi-cloud.
Experience with containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
A customer-focused, commercially aware and data-informed approach to your decision making.
Ability to manage cross-team dependencies, collaborating effectively with Platform, SRE, Product, and other stakeholders.
Even if you don’t have all of the necessary skills, we still encourage you to apply.

Interview process

First stage : 30 minute intro and values call with Talent Partner
Second stage : 60 minute technical interview with the Engineering Manager & People Partner
Third stage : 60 minute live technical challenge with the Platform team
Fourth stage: 60 minute case study with Product, the Engineering Manager & Head of Platform Operations

Diversity & Inclusion

We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.

Great Work Deserves Great Perks

We try not to take ourselves too seriously (all the time) so we make sure our office is decked out with a pool table, arcade machine, beer tap, and a couple of office dogs thrown in for good measure.