Lead Cloud Engineer (GCP, AWS)

JR United Kingdom; Exeter; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global crypto exchange seeks a Technical Lead to shape and optimize their cloud infrastructure. You will play a critical role in designing and managing infrastructure across GCP and AWS, focusing on automation with tools like Terraform. This is a hands-on position involving mentorship, where you will drive innovation in a dynamic, growing team in Central London.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in designing/managing cloud infrastructure in high-availability environments.
• Hands-on role with strong focus on automation and cost optimization.
• Comfortable leading discussions with Senior Stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS.
• Lead and mentor a junior engineer, guiding technical discussions.
• Automate cloud operations using infrastructure as code.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure design

Automation

Security considerations

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

GCP

AWS

Job description

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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 optimising 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: 3x 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 1x 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 facing off with Senior Stakeholders.

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