Lead Cloud Engineer (GCP, AWS)

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

Job summary

A global crypto exchange seeks a Technical Lead to enhance its cloud infrastructure, optimizing performance and security. This hands-on role provides an opportunity to lead a team and influence technical decisions in a lean, dynamic environment. Ideal candidates will have extensive cloud experience and a passion for automation.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage secure cloud infrastructure.
• Automate cloud operations using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Guide and mentor a small engineering team.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

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 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 1 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.

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