Lead Engineer - Cloud Platform Operations

Responsibilities

• Lead the provisioning, management, and optimisation of cloud infrastructure and services across AWS (primary), OCI, and Azure, covering IaaS, PaaS, and cloud-native offerings.
• Oversee the deployment and configuration of public cloud resources, ensuring security, scalability, cost efficiency, and alignment with landing-zone guardrails (tagging, naming, quota, region standards).
• Curate and operate a Cloud Service Catalog of approved blueprints for common stacks, enabling governed self-service and faster time-to-value for application teams.
• Implement an Infrastructure-as-Code approach using Terraform for all cloud infrastructure deployments; maintain drift detection and auto-remediation where safe.
• Integrate IaC pipelines with pre-merge security and compliance testing (OPA/Conftest, static analysis, terraform validate/plan gates) and manage controlled promotion across environments; own access controls, secrets hygiene, and security configuration across CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub).
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools (CLI, PowerShell, Python, Bash) for cloud resource management, health checks, and operational toil reduction; experience developing AI-assisted automation or autonomous agents to accelerate operational workflows is a strong advantage.
• Establish and maintain cloud landing zones with policy-as-code guardrails (Azure Policy/Defender for Cloud, AWS Organizations/Control Tower SCPs, OCI Policies).
• Own identity and access standards: enforce least privilege, SSO, role mapping, privileged access break-glass, workload identities, and key/secrets management (KMS/HSM, rotation SLAs, secret scanning).
• Define and operate cloud network reference architectures (hub-and-spoke, private endpoints, egress controls, DNS, global load balancing, cross-cloud connectivity) with security baselines.
• Maintain golden images and patch pipelines for compute and container runtimes; ensure vulnerability management and CIS/NIST benchmark alignment.
• Lead container and Kubernetes platform operations (EKS/AKS/OKE): cluster lifecycle, node pools, autoscaling, admission control, image provenance, and supply chain security.
• Implement observability at scale (centralised logs, metrics, traces); integrate with SIEM/SOAR and enforce runbook-driven incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Embed SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, capacity policies, toil reduction) and automate health checks, drift detection, and remediations.
• Own FinOps operations: cost allocation/chargeback, budgets and alerts, rightsizing, Reserved Instances/Savings Plans/Flexible commitments, and lifecycle policies for idle or orphaned resources.
• Oversee backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning for cloud environments; define RTO/RPO targets and participate in restore drills.
• Ensure CMDB/ITSM integration (auto-discovery, service mapping), event enrichment, and change automation (standard changes) with audit-ready evidence.
• Drive integration with DevOps workflows, supporting rapid deployment and continuous delivery across cloud platforms.
• Ensure compliance with organisational policies and regulatory require

Benefits

Additional Information

REGENT LP Regent is a global private holding company focused on investing in and transforming businesses across a broad spectrum of industries including automotive, technology, consumer products, retail, industrial, and media. Known for driving innovation and operational excellence, Regent partners with management teams to unlock long-term value. ROLE OVERVIEW We are seeking an experienced Lead Engineer for Cloud Platform Operations to join a global technology team in Warsaw. This area lead role carries full accountability for provisioning, securing, and continuously improving a multi-cloud estate, with AWS as the primary platform, alongside OCI and Azure. The role spans IaaS and PaaS operations, Infrastructure-as-Code engineering, cloud-native security and networking, Kubernetes/container platforms, SRE practices, and FinOps - partnering closely with application, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver a reliable, governed, and cost-efficient cloud platform. The successful candidate combines deep technical breadth across cloud disciplines with the leadership capability to mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement.* *Please note this role is on-site 5 days per week AREA CONTEXT Cloud Platform Operations is responsible for the provisioning, management, and optimisation of cloud infrastructure and services. This area supports the organisation's digital transformation by enabling rapid deployment of resources, automation of operational tasks, and integration with DevOps workflows. It covers public cloud platforms - AWS (primary), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and Azure - as well as IaaS, PaaS, and cloud-native offerings. The area addresses challenges related to cost management, scalability, and compliance, ensuring that cloud resources are used efficiently and securely.

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