Cloud Tech Lead - The lovely blend between People, Tech and Strategy

Playground Group; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Playground Group in Stockholms län is seeking a Cloud Tech Lead to bridge high-level strategy with hands-on engineering. You will engage with technical teams and stakeholders alike, ensuring projects are delivered effectively. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP and fluency in Swedish is prioritized. This role offers a dynamic work environment where your growth and contributions truly matter, fostering ownership and collaboration across complex projects.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of driving projects to completion.
• Senior-level cloud competency and respect from the team.
• Ability to manage and mentor a team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery from concept to execution.
• Translate technical language to non-technical stakeholders.
• Foster a friendly and inclusive team environment.

Skills

Architectural-level competence in AWS, Azure, or GCP

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD experience

Container orchestration

Observability tools

Configuration management

Development experience in Go or Python

Job description

Finding the right Tech Lead for a consultancy is a bit like finding a unicorn that actually knows how to code. You need the technical chops to build the thing, the patience to explain it to a Director, and the social grace to keep the team rowing in the same direction.

At some companies, "Tech Lead" is just a fancy title for someone who spends 40 hours a week in spreadsheets. That’s not us. We’re looking for a Cloud Tech Lead who still gets a kick out of opening an IDE.

You’re the bridge between high-level strategy and the actual "how-to." You aren't just managing the team; you are in the team.

The 75/25 Split (Give or Take) We believe the best leaders are those who stay sharp. You can expect a minimum of 50% hands‑on engineering work.

• The Easy Days: You’re building, deploying, and mentoring.
• The "Consultancy" Days: Some clients need a bit more hand‑holding. When the going gets tough, you might shift to a 50/50 split, balancing deep‑dive engineering with stakeholder coordination and expectation management.

What you'll do

• Driving the Ship: This isn't an administrative role. You are a Team Lead in every sense; guiding project delivery from concept to "it's alive!"
• Translating "Tech" to "Human": You’ll be chatting with Directors and Engineering Managers one hour, and pair‑programming with a dev the next. You need to speak both languages fluently.
• Managing the Vibe: You know how to manage people and expectations in a clear, friendly and inclusive manner. We value autonomy, proactivity, and, most importantly, being someone people actually enjoy working with.

Who are you?

Tech has probably been a vital form of interest in your life, and you might have started out tinkering with games, or solving problems by creating technical solutions, or maybe just had that mind‑set saying "I want to know how and why it works!".

You might have started your career in software development, system engineering, or as a DevOps professional and somewhere along the way you also learned that you have an interest in leading/mentoring people.

You would probably describe yourself as:

Technically Senior: You’ve been around the cloud block. You have the seniority to back up your decisions and the competence to earn the team's respect.

Project‑Driven: You’ve got a track record of driving projects across the finish line, not just riding in the passenger seat.

A Proactive Type: You don’t wait for a ticket to tell you something is broken. You see a gap, you fill it.

Tech Skills:

• Architectural‑level competence required in at least one of the three hyperscalers: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Infrastructure as Code.
• CI/CD experience with automated code deployment.
• Container orchestration.
• Observability tools.
• Configuration management.

Bonus: Development experience in languages like Go or Python is beneficial for understanding developer experience, automation, and infrastructure as code.

Buzzword bingo: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Pulumi, SDK, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Ansible, Go, Python, Docker.

Language requirement

Fluency in Swedish is prioritized and English is a must. Why? Because most of our collaborations and client projects are conducted in Swedish.

Welcome to Playground!

At Playground, you work on real, complex assignments for well‑established and ambitious clients, not bench projects or short‑lived experiments. Our teams are trusted with production systems, platforms, and data that actually matter. Here growth comes from ownership, curiosity, and doing the work properly. You’re trusted to think, contribute, and keep getting better, one meaningful step at a time.

Playground brings together specialized domains under one umbrella, with a shared culture and way of working, and easy access to broad technical expertise when it helps move the work forward.