Engineering Lead - AWS Platform, Infrastructure & Operations

Interact Consulting Limited; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Interact Consulting Limited in the UK Fintech space is seeking an Engineering Lead to drive AWS infrastructure, DevOps strategy and operational excellence, with a remote-first stance and monthly meetups in central London.

You will lead a 5-7 person Operations Engineering team, shape cloud cost optimization, security and reliability, and partner with product and security to deliver scalable, secure financial services technology.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering/infrastructure/DevOps/SRE teams of 3+ years.
• Strong AWS and cloud infrastructure expertise (10+ years).
• Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and observability.
• Knowledge of Docker, incident management and cloud security.
• Strong technical, strategic and people leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of 5-7 Operations Engineers.
• Shape the AWS, infrastructure and DevOps strategy.
• Drive reliability, security, observability and operational excellence.
• Champion You Build It, You Run It engineering practices.
• Drive cloud cost optimisation and FinOps.
• Partner with Engineering, Product and Security to deliver scalable, secure solutions.
• Provide technical leadership while empowering your team to own outcomes.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

Docker

Cloud security

Incident management

Leadership

People leadership

DevOps

Job description

A long standing and exciting client of ours in the Fintech space are once again expanding and looking to bring in an Engineering Lead whose focus will be on transforming financial services through technology and helping more people feel comfortable with their finances. This is a remote role with once a month meet ups in central London.

We're looking for an Operations Engineering Lead to lead the AWS infrastructure and operations function, setting the direction for platform, DevOps, reliability, security and developer experience.

The role:

• Lead and develop a team of 5-7 Operations Engineers.
• Shape the AWS, infrastructure and DevOps strategy.
• Drive reliability, security, observability and operational excellence.
• Champion "You Build It, You Run It" engineering practices.
• Drive cloud cost optimisation and FinOps.
• Partner with Engineering, Product and Security to deliver scalable, secure solutions.
• Provide technical leadership while empowering your team to own outcomes.

You must have:

• Proven experience leading engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE or Operations teams of 3years+
• Strong AWS and cloud infrastructure expertise - 10years+
• Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and observability.
• Knowledge of Docker, incident management and cloud security.
• Strong technical, strategic and people leadership skills.

If you're a pragmatic engineering leader who enjoys building great teams, solving complex problems and shaping engineering strategy, we'd love to hear from you.