Staff Cloud Foundations Engineer: Multi-Cloud & AI

Syngenta Group; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Syngenta Group, a leader in agricultural technology, seeks a Staff Engineer to shape the cloud foundations across multi-cloud environments. You will collaborate with engineering, product and scientific teams to deliver secure, scalable platforms with clear cost visibility and strong governance.

This role emphasizes AI-assisted engineering and high standards for reliability and security. You will mentor teams, drive architecture reviews, and set best practices that align with organizational

Qualifications

• Experience in multi-cloud architecture (AWS and GCP)
• Terraform IaC at scale
• Cloud networking and governance
• FinOps instrumentation and cloud economics
• AI-assisted engineering with rigorous review
• Technical leadership without line authority
• Platform-as-product mindset
• Stakeholder management with hyperscalers
• Cloud security standards, compliance frameworks and governance
• Incident response and reliability engineering
• Strong communication to influence stakeholders
• Fluent English (written and spoken)
• AWS or GCP Certification

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-cloud architecture (AWS and GCP) to deliver scalable outcomes.
• Drive organization-scale Terraform/IaC implementations.
• Define and enforce cloud networking and governance practices.
• Instrument FinOps metrics and optimize cloud costs.
• Guide AI-assisted engineering with rigorous reviews.
• Provide technical leadership without direct authority across teams.
• Collaborate with engineering, product and science teams to translate needs.
• Set high quality, documentation and AI usage standards.
• Mentor engineers in cloud architecture best practices.
• Establish and enforce cloud security standards and governance.

Skills

Multi-cloud AWS/GCP

Terraform IaC

Cloud networking

FinOps

AI-assisted engineering

Technical leadership (no line)

Platform-as-product

Stakeholder management (hyperscalers)

Security governance

Incident response

Architecture reviews

English fluency

AWS/GCP certification

Job description

Syngenta Group, a leader in agricultural technology, seeks a Staff Engineer to shape the cloud foundations across multi-cloud environments. You will collaborate with engineering, product and scientific teams to deliver secure, scalable platforms with clear cost visibility and strong governance.

This role emphasizes AI-assisted engineering and high standards for reliability and security. You will mentor teams, drive architecture reviews, and set best practices that align with organizational