Lead Cloud Engineer (AWS)
Lead Cloud Engineer (AWS)
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About GFT
GFT Technologies is a global leader in driving the digital transformation of the worlds foremost financial institutions. Our expertise extends to other sectors such as industry and insurance where we leverage our robust consulting and implementation skills across pioneering technologies including cloud engineering artificial intelligence the Internet of Things for Industry 4.0 and blockchain. With our deep technological expertise strong partnerships and scalable IT solutions GFT enhances productivity in software development providing clients with faster access to new IT applications and innovative business models while mitigating risk.
Since 2001 we have been pioneers of near-shore delivery now boasting an international team spanning 16 countries and a global workforce of over 9000 professionals. GFT is recognized by industry analysts such as Everest Group as a leader among global mid-sized Service Integrators and ranks in the Top 20 for leading global Service Integrators in exponential technologies like Open Banking Blockchain Digital Banking and App Services.
Sign-on Bonus: Eligible for candidates who are currently employed elsewhere and able to join GFT within 30 days of offer acceptance.
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer (710 years) with deep expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive the design implementation and governance of cloud-native infrastructure for our banking clients. This role requires both hands-on technical capability and leadership skills to guide engineering teams ensure architectural best practices and deliver scalable secure and compliant solutions. You will partner closely with delivery managers architects and product teams to set the direction for cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership: Provide architectural direction and technical leadership across multiple product teams building on AWS.
- Cloud Strategy & Roadmap: Define and evolve cloud strategy ensuring alignment with business goals regulatory requirements and security standards.
- Architecture Ownership: Own the end-to-end architecture of AWS-based infrastructure including networking compute storage and security models.
- Mentorship & Governance: Mentor Cloud Engineers (L3/L4) and establish best practices for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) CI/CD monitoring and cloud security.
- Complex Migrations: Lead large-scale cloud migration initiatives (on-prem to AWS) ensuring minimal downtime and full compliance.
- Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with Delivery Security and Product stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical designs.
- Innovation & Tooling: Evaluate emerging AWS services and DevOps tools driving adoption of solutions that reduce operational toil and improve delivery velocity.
- Service Reliability: Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs for cloud infrastructure ensuring resilience performance and observability.
- Compliance & Security: Drive adherence to security standards (PCI-DSS ISO SOC2) and ensure proper IAM governance encryption and audit readiness.
- Incident Leadership: Provide escalation support for critical production issues leading root cause analysis and continuous improvement actions.
Required Skills & Experience
- AWS Mastery: 710 years in cloud engineering with deep hands-on expertise across core AWS services (EC2 ECS/EKS RDS/Aurora S3 IAM VPC Lambda CloudFormation/Terraform).
- Architectural Design: Proven ability to design large-scale multi-account AWS architectures for regulated industries (preferably banking/financial services).
- Leadership: Minimum 3 years in a senior/lead role mentoring teams and driving governance across multiple squads.
- Automation & IaC: Advanced experience with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation. Strong background in building modular reusable infrastructure components.
- DevOps & CI/CD: Experience setting up enterprise-grade pipelines (AWS CodePipeline GitLab Jenkins) for continuous integration and delivery.
- Security & Compliance: Strong knowledge of cloud security practices IAM policy design encryption audit and compliance frameworks (PCI-DSS ISO 27001).
- Resilience & Performance: Expertise in architecting for scalability availability (multi-region/multi-AZ) disaster recovery and fault tolerance.
- Collaboration & Communication: Strong ability to engage stakeholders present technical strategies and influence decision-making at senior levels.
Nice-to-Have
- Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.
- Observability: Experience implementing advanced monitoring/logging (CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana ELK).
- Messaging Systems: Experience with Kafka or AWS-native equivalents (Kinesis MSK).
- Multi-cloud Awareness: Understanding of other platforms (Azure GCP) while maintaining AWS specialization.
- Software Development Background: Familiarity with application development (Java Python) for effective collaboration with dev teams.
Employment Type
Full Time
