Lead Cloud Engineer

About the role

The Lead Cloud Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the day-to-day operations of our cloud infrastructure. This role is crucial for maintaining the stability, security, and efficiency of our cloud services. The ideal candidate will partner with product owners, tech leaders, designers, software engineers and delivery professionals to stabilize and improve on the Cloud Platform. In addition to advanced technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do. Key Responsibility Areas: Cloud Infrastructure Management: Oversee the daily operations of cloud infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. Architecting and implementing cloud solutions for new and existing workloads. Implement and manage cloud security measures to protect data and applications. Monitoring and analyzing the capabilities and performance of all cloud systems. Troubleshooting issues as they arise. Analyzing cloud usage patterns and identifying opportunities to reduce cloud spending. Setting up cloud virtual networks, firewalls, and network access control lists to secure cloud communication. Implementing security policies, monitoring threats, and ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations. Participate in on-call rotations. Collaboration and Coordination: Work closely with the Head of Cloud Engineering and other key teams to align cloud infrastructure with business needs. Coordinate with other Technology teams to ensure seamless integration and operation of cloud services. Lead and manage junior cloud engineers and DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and support. Communicating effectively within and across multiple teams including vendors when required. Drive cultural change and increase collaboration levels within the organization: Provide leadership and expertise across the function, while driving performance improvement, building technical capability and developing talent. Drive a culture of continuous improvement that proactively manages resolution of serious and complex problems, identifying underlying causes and performing corrective action appropriately. Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement within the cloud infrastructure. Stay updated with the latest cloud technologies and best practices to ensure the organization remains at the forefront of innovation. Lead modernization of existing workloads using cloud best practices. Lead incident post-mortems, capturing key learnings and implementing system improvements. Leverage AI-powered coding and engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, Claude) to accelerate development workflows, code reviews, and infrastructure-as-code authoring.