Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Lead Cloud Engineer, where you'll spearhead cloud migration projects and lead a dynamic team of engineers. This role offers the chance to work in a multicultural environment, driving innovation and excellence in cloud solutions. You'll collaborate with various teams to implement best practices, optimize costs, and ensure compliance with security standards. With a focus on developing talent and fostering a culture of meritocracy, this position promises growth and the opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly evolving industry. Embrace the challenge and thrive in your career with endless possibilities!

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Hybrid working environment

Income protection

Life insurance (4x salary)

Wellbeing Employee Assistance Program

Employee discount shopping platform

Monthly gym allowance

Cycle to Work scheme

Discretionary bonus scheme

Season ticket loan

Qualifications

• Experience in managing cloud environments and leading teams.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and infrastructure management.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud migration projects using AWS technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define AWS capabilities.
• Mentor team members and foster a supportive environment.

Skills

AWS Cloud DevOps

Terraform

CI/CD Pipelines

Java

Python

Go

Docker

Agile Methodologies

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Education

AWS Certification

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

AWS Services (EC2, S3, etc.)

Job description

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Take a step forward and let Edenred surprise you.

Every day, we deliver innovative solutions to improve the life of millions of people, connecting employees, companies, and merchants all around the world.

We know there are hundred ways for you to grow. With us, you will expand your skills in a multicultural, challenging, and dynamic environment.

Dare to join Edenred and get ready to thrive in a globalcompany that will offer you endless opportunities.

Edenred is all about meritocracy. You come as you are, and you contribute. Indeed, the Edenred Group recognizes, recruits and develops all talents and singularities.

We are committed to preventing all forms of discrimination and to providing all our candidates with equal opportunities regardless of their gender and gender expression, disability, origin, religious belief and sexual orientation or any other criteria.

We are now hiring for a Lead Cloud Engineer to join our growing Cloud platforms team here at Edenred PayTech. Our Cloud Platforms team is an instrumental part in helping Edenred PayTech become a cloud-native business.

This role will be reporting to our Head of Cloud Platforms and leading a team of both highly experienced and junior cloud engineers. You will be closely working with solution architects, and other counterparts across the organization to deliver a world-class cloud platform solution to the company along with developing and building strong cloud talents within the organization.

We are looking for an experienced Lead Cloud Platform Engineer who will act as a team lead, and SME in the wider technology landscape including but not limited DevSecOps process, Cloud, Datacenter, and large-scale cloud migration with strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills. This role will also collaborate and help enable the wider teams across the Edenred organization to make better use of public cloud by developing and advocating the best practices and standards.

You’ll be leading the cloud migration projects for various PPS service environments by using a full range of AWS technologies, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines by designing, building platforms and also supporting the production operations. The Ideal candidate will enjoy problem solving, possess agile mindset and well-developed emotional intelligence, and will be a true evangelist of Cloud technologies.

What you will be doing:

• Work with cross-functional team such as InfoSec, FinOps, Architecture, Infrastructure, CQA, Engineering and Service Operation to drive and support the PPS Cloud migration strategy roadmap.
• Lead by collaborating with service managers, scrum masters, delivery teams, to define and deliver the required AWS capability for a given project/initiative
• Be mindful of AWS costs, always seeking to minimise cost and maximise benefit by using innovative ideas, even though this is not always possible the good intention is always there
• Display Technical Leadership through a desire to tackle hard technical problems.
• Able to provide options, guidance and recommendations based on objectives from different stakeholders including technical leadership team
• Able to map out and delegate responsibilities to your direct reports, providing a challenging yet supportive environment
• Lead the creation of tools for infrastructure management, monitoring, and scalability
• Act as mentor, monitor team performance and provide feedbacks to direct reports on timely manner
• Lead by contributing and championing the Cloud Platforms CoE, identifying and promoting improvements to processes, tools, and standards
• Supporting our cloud customers during deployment and onboarding, playing a front-line role in resource management and information security within the cloud environment
• Training teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives
• Managing our cloud environments in line with company policy and also meeting the PCI DSS compliances by following and implementing security standards and the best practices.
• Create and maintain highly scalable and fault-tolerant multi-tier AWS environments spanning across multiple availability zones and regions using Terraform as main IaC and CloudFormation where needed.
• Designing and implementing the most suitable/reliable DR (disaster recovery) strategies in the cloud for the PPS services by setting up geographically redundant services
• Orchestrating and automating cloud-based platforms throughout the company
• Lead and support the development of sustainable centralized logging and monitoring solution
• Deploying and debugging cloud initiatives as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle
  

What we want from you:

• Certified AWS Cloud DevOps or Solution Architect
• Be practice on the best practices and show the impact of quality work firsthand to their teams. Hands-on with the code and are not afraid of diving deep into the code when necessary
• Ability to supervise a team of technical people while making decisions related to engineering and cloud infrastructure development
• Experience in creating and managing tools for the infrastructure
• AWS Infrastructure and Applications design, management, and implementation
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet or Ansible
• Building, deploying, and managing container technologies such as Docker and ECS
• Creating and managing CI/CD pipelines in containerised microservices environment.
• Experience with one, or more, of the following; Java, Python, Go or Scripting (Groovy/Shell)
• Experience working with Infrastructure and Development teams to deliver platforms into production environments
• Understand serverless technologies
• Experience working in a DevOps and Agile environment
• Cloud migration and project experience
• Expertise in working on complex AWS solutions
• Working in a PCI-DSS compliant environment would be highly beneficial, or another highly regulated industry background
• Involved in design and deployment of multitude of cloud services on AWS stack such as EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM, while focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Setup AWS infrastructure monitoring through CloudWatch and application performance monitoring through App Dynamics.

Behavioural Profile

• Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical issues and solutions to all levels of the business, and to external stakeholders
• Good leadership skills, able to coach and guide people, using assertiveness and respect
• Critical thinker, excellent analysis skills, problem-solving, and open mindness at all times
• Strong relationship builder, enjoys engaging and growing relationships with wider business units
• Enjoys collaborating and working as a team, with good persuasion skills, and conviction
• Outstanding attention to detail and learning agility
• Diversity conscious, able to work with others and understand the benefits of having diverse teams
• Empathetic, ability to recognise others’ emotions and perspective in the workplace
  

Why Edenred Paytech?

We are a subsidiary of the Edenred group and a Mastercard Principal Member, and an FCA Electronic Money Institution, offering a range of cutting-edge services including Payment Processing, UK and SEPA banking solutions, BIN sponsorship, and eWallet provisions. We work with various clients across Challenger Banking (Monese, Tide, Anytime, and more), Corporate Benefits (Fuel cards, restaurant tickets), and Retail and Travel services (Sainsbury’s, TUI, Argos).

As an Edenred Paytech employee, you will get the support and structure that you need to enjoy your work and develop your career while doing what you love and making a difference in a fast-paced and innovative business.

What you will get:

25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, Hybrid working environment with 3 days per week in the office (flexibility on role-by-role basis), Income protection, Life insurance (4x salary), Wellbeing Employee Assistance Program (extended access to family members), Employee discount shopping platform, Digital learning platform, Complimentary fruit and other ‘in-office’ snacks & refreshments, Volunteering program, Social events, Pension Scheme – employer 6% with minimum employee contribution 3%, Discretionary bonus scheme based on company and personal performance, Holiday trading scheme (buy or sell up to 5 days), Medical & international travel cover (leisure and action sports), Monthly gym allowance, Employee referral bonus scheme, Season ticket loan, Cycle to Work scheme

Diversity:

Edenred UK is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on age, race, colour, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship, marital status or civil partnership/union status, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by applicable country or local laws.

Recruitment:

Edenred PayTech and Payment Solutions maintain a strict preferred supplier list (PSL), which is managed centrally by our Talent Acquisition Lead. The PSL is reviewed on a yearly basis, and we will not accept unsolicited CVs submitted from any supplier outside of the PSL. If an unsolicited CV is subsequently hired, we will not accept liability for any fees incurred. We ask you refrain from contacting our hiring managers directly with profiles, and all requests for engagement are made to our careers email.