Lead Cloud Engineer (GCP, AWS)

JR United Kingdom; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 119,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global crypto exchange as a Technical Lead, shaping the future of finance. You will design and manage resilient cloud infrastructure while leading a small team. This hands-on role demands expertise in automation and cloud management, with substantial growth potential in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in designing and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in trading or investment environments preferred.
• Comfortable leading technical discussions.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Automate cloud operations and infrastructure as code.
• Mentor and guide an engineering team.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure design

Automation

Security management

Terraform

Terragrunt

Stakeholder engagement

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 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.

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