Tech Lead, Nicosia, Cyprus

On behalf of our client were looking for a Tech Lead in Cloud and DevOps to lead a small team and own client engagements end to end setting the technical direction delivering the hard parts personally and being the authority in the room on cloud. Its roughly a 60/40 split between engineering and leading: this is a lead who still builds. You will be joining our clients team of professionals in Nicosia Cyprus.

About the role:

Youll be the trusted technical voice with clients often the most cloud-literate person in the conversation including with C-suite company is brought in precisely because the client doesnt have that depth so youll explain recommend and decide rather than be given what is required. If youre used to a more senior architect signing off your decisions this wont suit; if you enjoy carrying the decision it will.

Our client builds secures and operates cloud platforms for enterprise and regulated organisations across banking telecoms and healthcare as well as fast-growing scale-ups. Theyre a profitable engineering-led business thats growing quickly with partnerships including AWS (Advanced Tier) Cloudflare (Powered) Elastic and Microsoft.

What youll do:

• Lead a small team of engineers (currently two to three and growing): planning work reviewing it unblocking people and being accountable for what the team delivers
• Own delivery on one or two engagements at a time accountable for the technical outcome rather than just your own tickets
• Set the architecture and standards: how accounts modules pipelines and monitoring are structured and hold the line on them across the team
• Stay hands-on delivering the hard parts personally (roughly a 60/40 split between engineering and leading)
• Act as the trusted technical voice with clients including with C-suite stakeholders
• Support presales: sizing work sanity-checking scope before it becomes a fixed-price commitment and inputting to statements of work getting this right protects margin
• Mentor mid-level engineers review their work and help shape the engineering ladder as the team grows
• Occasional travel to Greece and to partner or industry events

• 7 years in infrastructure or platform engineering with significant AWS depth or Azure
• Personally designed and delivered at least one substantial cloud build: landing zone large migration multi-account setup DR architecture or equivalent
• Terraform at architecture level: module design multi-account and multi-environment structure and standards you set for others
• Kubernetes or ECS in production plus CI/CD design
• Proven client-facing delivery: running a workshop presenting and defending a design to technical and executive stakeholders and handling a difficult conversation about scope or an incident
• Experience leading a small team of two to five engineers: allocating and reviewing work setting standards and being accountable for what the team ships
• Coding ability in Python Go or TypeScript
• Fluent in English both written and spoken
• Based in Nicosia (preferred)

• Greek speaking relevant at lead level given the client and partner contact
• AWS Professional or Specialty certifications or the Azure equivalent
• A consultancy MSP or systems-integration background rather than a single in-house platform
• Regulated-sector experience (banking healthcare telco) and familiarity with what an auditor or security review asks for
• Security depth: identity network segmentation secrets posture management
• Experience contributing to scoping estimation or proposals

• gross per year based on experience plus performance bonus
• Hybrid working no after-hours weekend or night shifts
• Extra paid leave including the week between Christmas and New Year

Ready to apply

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