Cloud Lead

Convatec; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Convatec in Lisbon is looking for a Tech Lead – Cloud Operations responsible for the technical quality and engineering standards of cloud platforms. The role includes defining cloud architecture standards and leading automation efforts.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Azure or AWS certifications, and experience with Infrastructure-as-Code. This position offers a hybrid work model to balance remote and office work based on business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in relevant fields.
• Microsoft Azure or AWS certifications preferred.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Maintain cloud architecture standards and enforce best practices.
• Lead design and evolution of Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Mentor Cloud Operations engineers and improve technical maturity.

Skills

Cloud architecture standards

Infrastructure-as-Code

Automation techniques

Technical troubleshooting

Mentorship

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering

Microsoft Azure Certifications

AWS Certifications

Terraform Associate certification

Job description

Position Overview

The Tech Lead – Cloud Operations is accountable for the technical quality, reliability, and engineering standards of cloud operational platforms and services across AWS and Azure. The role acts as the technical authority within Cloud Operations, ensuring that environments are secure, resilient, scalable, and automated by design. The Tech Lead partners closely with the CloudOps Manager, Cloud Service Owners, Cloud Engineers, Security, Networking, and DevOps team to translate operational requirements into robust technical solutions, while continuously reducing operational risk and technical debt. This role does not own people management or budget, but has clear technical decision rights and is a key escalation point for complex incidents and architectural decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and enforce cloud architecture standards, design patterns, and engineering best practices for Cloud Operations in collaboration with the Architecture team.
• Review and approve technical designs, IaC pull requests, and platform changes impacting production and non‑production environments.
• Ensure security, resilience, scalability, and observability are built into all cloud solutions by design.
• Act as technical lead during major incidents, driving deep technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Identify systemic weaknesses and lead permanent corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Support service reliability targets (availability, performance, recoverability).
• Lead the design and evolution of Infrastructure‑as‑Code using Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation.
• Drive automation across provisioning, patching, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and recovery processes, ensuring repeatable, tested, and reliable DR capabilities across cloud environments.
• Ensure backups and DR policies, runbooks, and automation meet resilience requirements and are regularly tested and validated.
• Promote Git‑based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and policy‑as‑code.
• Own and prioritize the technical debt and modernization backlog for Cloud Operations platforms.
• Proactively reduce operational risk, manual work, and single points of failure.
• Partner with Cloud Architecture and Security to evolve platforms in line with target state.
• Mentor Cloud Operations engineers, raising overall technical maturity and engineering discipline.
• Contribute to skills frameworks, career paths, and technical onboarding content.
• Act as a role model for ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Approve or reject technical designs and implementation approaches.
• Enforce engineering standards, architectural guardrails, and technical best practices.
• Recommend technology choices, tools, and platform improvements.
• Escalate unmanaged technical risk to CloudOps Lead and Infrastructure leadership.

Education / Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred Certifications: Microsoft Azure: AZ‑104, AZ‑305 (or equivalent); AWS: Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional); Terraform Associate or equivalent IaC certification; ITIL Foundation (or higher).

Working Conditions

• Hybrid working – flexible number of days per week in the office driven by business requirements, with a flexible approach to office working.
• The position follows UK time zone working hours. Standard operating hours are aligned with UK business time (GMT/BST), with occasional flexibility required based on business and operational priorities.

Special Factors

• May require flexibility to work on‑call during weekends.

Equal Opportunities

Convatec provides equal employment opportunities for all current employees and applicants for employment. This policy means that no one will be discriminated against because of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, nationality, citizenship, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, affectionate or sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, genetic predisposing characteristics or any other basis prohibited by law.