Job Description

JOB PURPOSEAs a Lead Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and management of cloud-based solutions and infrastructure. A lead will provide technical leadership to a team of cloud engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and efficiency in cloud services.RESPONSIBILITIESCloud Architecture and Strategy

• Lead the design and development of scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures based on business requirements.
• Define cloud adoption strategies, migration plans, and roadmap for optimizing cloud services.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and recommend solutions to enhance performance and innovation.

Team Leadership and Mentorship

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of cloud engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Mentor and coach team members, facilitating their professional growth and development.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to recruit and onboard new cloud engineering talent.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Automation

• Champion infrastructure as code (IaC) practices and automation initiatives using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Implement automated provisioning, configuration, and deployment of cloud resources to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate cloud infrastructure into CI/CD pipelines.

Cloud Operations and Optimization

• Oversee cloud infrastructure operations, monitoring performance, availability, and cost.
• Implement best practices for cloud resource optimization, including rightsizing, cost allocation, and budget management.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts and resolution of complex cloud-related issues.

Security and Compliance

• Define and enforce cloud security policies, controls, and compliance requirements.
• Conduct regular security assessments and audits of cloud environments, addressing vulnerabilities and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with security teams to implement and improve cloud security measures.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Communication

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable cloud solutions.
• Communicate cloud architecture designs, strategies, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships with business leaders, ensuring alignment of cloud initiatives with organizational goals.

Self-Management & Leadership

• Set an example through personal quality and productivity standards and ways of working with others.
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures. Plan and priorities, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
• Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change. Demonstrate flexibility. in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organisational and team needs. Drive customer centricity
• Ability to lead and mentor a team of database administrators
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal processes.
• Plan and prioritize, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
• Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change.
• Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational requirements.
• Demonstrate attention to detail.
• Demonstrate good organizational skills, planning, prioritizing and execution.
• Demonstrate good time management, essential for good self-management.
• Demonstrate good goal setting skills in maintaining productivity.
• Demonstrate good self-motivation to ensure progress on projects and activities.

Work Collaboratively

• Build a culture of integrity, respect and understanding across the organisation.
• Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams.
• Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication, and collaboration across the organisation.
• Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders (Retailers and POS Companies) to develop joint solutions.
• Demonstrate ability to work in teams.
• Demonstrate ability to communicate at all levels.

Competency RequirementsBehaviors

• Customer Focus
• Instills Trust
• Cultivates Innovation
• Collaborates
• Situational Adaptability
• Business Insight
• Manages Complexity
• Plans and Aligns
• Balances Stakeholders
• Ensures Accountability
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Customer Focus
• Situational Adaptability
• Tech Savvy

Leadership

• Ensures Accountability
• Managing others
• Communicating goals
• Organizing work
• Allocating and managing resources
• Delegating tasks
• Leading by example
• Problem solving
• Ensuring team members are trained
• Encourage collaboration
• Demonstrate honesty and integrity.
• Strive for Customer Centricity
• Innovate boldly
• Be both agile and entrepreneurial
• Build relationships and trust
• Develop people for long-term success
• Be an agent of change
• Collaborative

Minimum Academic, Professional Qualifications & Experience required for this position

• Bachelors degree in information technology, Computer Science, Data Science, or a Business Administration, or a related field. Relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, ITIL) preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or related roles, with at least 2 years in a leadership position.
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing cloud architectures using AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or other cloud platforms
• Strong background in infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

Other required skills

• Deep understanding of cloud security best practices, compliance requirements, and governance frameworks.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and drive innovation in cloud services.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect are highly desirable.

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