Lead Cloud Engineer (GCP, AWS)

JR United Kingdom; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 119,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global crypto exchange to shape the future of finance as a Technical Lead. You will be responsible for designing and managing secure cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS while leading a lean team focused on automation and scalability. This role offers the opportunity to significantly impact a rapidly growing organization and its ambitious plans.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in designing and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Comfortable leading technical discussions and engaging with stakeholders.
• Experience with automation tools and high-availability environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Optimize cost, performance, and security across a regulated platform.
• Guide and mentor engineers as part of a growing team.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Design

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

Help shape the future of finance at a global crypto exchange that has surpassed over $1 trillion in trading volume.

Ideally, you’ve engineered systems in trading or investment environments, where infrastructure must move at the speed of the market, scale under pressure, and stay secure in the face of constant change.

You’ll design, deploy, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure hosted on both GCP and AWS. This is a hands-on role where you’ll play a key part in optimizing cost, performance, and security across a globally regulated platform.

There’s a strong focus on automation here - you’ll automate cloud operations and infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terragrunt.

You’ll ideally have proven experience in designing and managing cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, and security components in a high-availability environment.

• Location: 3 days per week in Central London
• Salary: up to £140k + bonus

Though they operate on a global scale, the London team is lean (~50 users). You won't just support the platform, you'll help shape it.

As a Technical Lead, you'll guide and mentor one engineer initially. The firm has ambitious growth plans - this team could scale to 7-8 people within the next 12 months.

You'll need to be comfortable leading technical discussions and engaging with senior stakeholders.

Are you the idea-generator they’re looking for?