Cloud Engineer (Tech Lead)

Role overview

This senior cloud engineer role leads the modernisation of a cloud platform that powers a globally used connected-health application serving several million monthly active users. The position blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, setting standards and guiding multiple teams toward infrastructure-as-code, observability, and safer continuous delivery on a live, regulated platform.

Responsibilities

- Own and evolve the cloud and backend roadmap, translating engineering vision into clear priorities, trade-offs, and next steps. - Drive cross-team architecture decisions to a close, making sure they are transparent, documented, and followed through. - Establish shared technical standards and guardrails that let teams work autonomously without creating dependencies. - Work hands-on with AWS and Terraform, reviewing designs and pull requests and challenging technical choices where needed. - Coach and pair with engineers to spread knowledge across teams and support greater ownership. - Balance technical direction with product, regulatory, security, and cost considerations alongside product owners, QA, and international colleagues. - Move the platform toward automated infrastructure, safer deployments, and stronger observability without relying on a big-bang rewrite.

Requirements

- Six or more years of cloud or backend engineering experience, including at least two years in a technical leadership role aligning multiple teams around direction and decisions. - Hands-on experience with AWS and Terraform (Infrastructure as Code), comfortable reviewing designs and pull requests. - Background with serverless and event-driven architectures, ideally combined with Node.js or TypeScript stacks. - Ability to translate technical choices into clear trade-offs for engineers, product owners, QA, and other stakeholders, and get decisions to stick without formal authority. - Active coaching, pairing, reviewing, and knowledge-sharing focus. - Pragmatic decision-making within clear security, compliance, and regulatory boundaries. - Comfort working in a self-managing organisational model with distributed teams. - Fluent English communication, as it is the primary internal language.

Nice to have

- Background in healthcare or other regulated environments. - Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and modern CI/CD pipelines.

Benefits and work setup

- Flexible workspace setup with an allowance to build the ideal home office. - Four-day in-office work week (Monday–Thursday), with 32 hours considered full-time. - Monthly in-person team days to bring colleagues together. - High autonomy and ownership within a self-organising team structure. - Three-stage online interview process planned up front to keep momentum.