Cloud Engineering Team Lead

Logoslabs

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 147,000 - 200,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Travel Insurance

Anniversary Rewards

Pension Scheme

Annual Leave

Learning Budget

Parental Leave

Cycle to Work

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Therapy Sessions

Dog Friendly Office

Free Snacks

Job summary

Capital on Tap is seeking a Cloud Engineering leader to drive our global infrastructure and standards. You will mentor engineers, own delivery of complex cloud projects, and push DevSecOps across teams.

In this hybrid role based in London (Old Street) with 2 days in the office, you’ll shape platform strategy, accelerate adoption of AI, and partner with Product, Platform, and SRE to deliver scalable, secure systems.

Qualifications

Proven track record leading and delivering complex cloud projects.
Experience mentoring engineers and handling hiring and people development.
Deep experience with public cloud platforms and IaC using Terraform.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor Cloud Engineering team and drive performance.
Define and enforce cloud engineering standards and best practices.
Partner with Product/Platform to align strategy and deliver outcomes.
Embed DevSecOps and ensure security, monitoring, automation from start.
Champion open communication across remote/hybrid/in-person environments.

Skills

Project leadership

Mentoring engineers

Public cloud experience

Terraform IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Docker

Multi-cloud

Security awareness

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

We’re Capital on Tap. Capital on Tap started because small businesses were underserved. Big banks were slow, their products weren't fit for purpose, and small business owners often couldn't access what they needed. We set out to fix that.

Today we're a financial platform - not just a credit card company. We offer a best-in-class business credit card, SME-focused spend management platform, a savings product that hit £1 billion in funds within its first year, and a growing suite of tools and financial products that make running a small business easier.

1,000+ employees, £20bn in annual card spend, 200,000+ customers, 17,000+ Trustpilot reviews averaging 4.7 stars, and we're profitable. We’ve done a pretty good job so far, but we’re just getting started!

London (Old Street) | 2 Days in the Office

Cloud Engineering

Cloud Engineering owns the foundations of Capital on Tap's global engineering effort - the core infrastructure, tooling, and standards everything else is built on. We aren't just running a platform; we're pushing the technical limits of what cloud infrastructure can achieve

What you’ll be doing

Champion a culture of continuous improvement, providing meaningful mentorship and constructive feedback that helps engineers grow.
Driving team performance by resolving bottlenecks, fostering accountability, and sustaining high engagement to ensure consistent delivery & resource efficiency.
Driving the adoption of AI within the team, ranging from day to day operations to large scale projects.
Foster open, transparent communication across remote, hybrid, and in-person environments.
Stay hands on in cloud engineering, leading by example at a technical level.
Defining and enforcing cloud engineering best practices that ensure consistency, scalability and operational excellence across the organisation.
Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and QA to align strategy and turn ideas into well-executed outcomes.
Contribute to product decisions, bringing a cloud perspective that balances speed, quality and scalability.
Proactively identify and mitigate risk before they come blockers.
Embed DevSecOps principles; ensuring security, monitoring, compliance, and automation are built in from the start.

Our Values & Culture

Just Pilot: We never settle for “good enough”. We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly.
Why Not Today? Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage.
Be a Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team, we do the right thing even if it’s hard.
Owners and Dates: We don’t chase people. If you own a task and agree to a date, the expectation is that it gets done.
Feedback: We want our employees to flourish, so we regularly provide direct and constructive feedback.

What are we looking for

A track record of leading and delivering complex projects.
Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and the appetite to own the full management remit, from hiring and development through to the harder people conversations.
Extensive experience managing public cloud environments.
Proficient in contributing to IaC technologies involving expertise in writing, managing, and optimising infrastructure with tools such as Terraform.
Experience using CI/CD tools, building pipelines, templates and troubleshooting.
Experience with applying high availability across cloud architectures, ideally including multi-cloud.
Experience with containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
A customer-focused, commercially aware and data-informed approach to your decision making.
Ability to manage cross-team dependencies, collaborating effectively with Platform, SRE, Product, and other stakeholders.

Interview process

First stage: 30 minute intro and values call with Talent Partner
Second stage: 60 minute technical interview with the Engineering Manager & People Partner
Third stage: 60 minute live technical challenge with the Platform team
Fourth stage: 60 minute case study with Product, the Engineering Manager & Head of Platform Operations

Diversity & Inclusion

We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.

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