Cloud Engineer

Cloud Technical Lead (AWS)

London | Financial Services | Multi-Cloud Transformation

A leading global financial services organisation is seeking an experienced Cloud Technical Lead to play a key role in the growth and evolution of its enterprise cloud capability.

This is a hands-on technical leadership opportunity within a highly skilled cloud engineering team, where you’ll help shape and scale AWS adoption across a complex multi-cloud environment.

The role combines deep AWS engineering expertise with architectural leadership, platform ownership, automation, governance, and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the design and implementation of AWS cloud solutions

• Driving platform engineering, automation, security, and cloud best practices

• Supporting enterprise-scale AWS onboarding and landing zone initiatives

• Collaborating with application, infrastructure, and security teams

• Acting as a senior technical escalation point for AWS engineering

• Contributing to cloud governance, standards, and reusable architecture patterns

Key experience required:

• Strong hands-on AWS engineering experience within production environments

• Expertise across services including EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC, and Infrastructure-as-Code

• Experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation

• Strong scripting/automation capability (Python, PowerShell or similar)

• CI/CD and Git-based workflow experience

• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking, and governance

• Experience designing scalable, secure, resilient cloud architectures

Additional experience considered highly beneficial:

• Azure engineering exposure

• Multi-cloud environments

• Enterprise cloud governance and landing zone implementation

• Financial services or regulated environments

The team is looking for someone who combines strong engineering depth with leadership capability, communication skills, and the ability to operate within a fast-paced enterprise environment.

If you’d be interested in hearing more, please feel free to reach out directly for a confidential discussion.