Lead Cloud Engineer
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Lead Cloud Engineer overseeing a team focused on building and maintaining cloud infrastructure for learning solutions. Responsible for technical direction, mentoring engineers, and fostering team growth.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure for our Totara Hosting solution.
- Extend platform functionality and implement new features to meet evolving client needs.
- Provide expert technical support, including participation in an on-call rota to ensure availability outside normal working hours.
- Collaborate across departments, communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Evolve a highly automated, secure, and resilient hosting platform serving thousands of learning sites across multiple regions.
- Mentor and coach engineers; conduct design reviews and raise the bar on engineering quality.
- Line manage a team of UK based Cloud Engineers, providing regular 1:1s, feedback, and career coaching.
- Create clear role expectations, development plans, and progression paths.
- Support hiring, onboarding, and team growth as the platform scales.
- Foster a healthy, inclusive team culture focused on learning, accountability, and psychological safety.
Requirements:
- Proven experience line managing a remote working engineering team, including performance management, coaching, and career development.
- Experience building and maintaining high-performing, engaged teams, including hiring, onboarding, and succession planning.
- Familiar with modern project management and delivery processes such as scrum and kanban.
- Strong capability in mentoring senior engineers and supporting progression into leadership or specialist roles.
- Proven experience with AWS services: EC2, EKS, SES, ECR, RDS, S3, WAF.
- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
- Knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Proficiency with Linux distributions (Alpine, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux).
- Experience managing PostgreSQL databases.
- Solid understanding of Git workflows and version control.
- Experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with DevOps principles and cloud security best practices.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Benefits:
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Private Healthcare
- Life Insurance 4x Salary
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Annual Wellbeing Allowance
- New Joiner home working set-up allowance
- Additional Paid Leave: Birthday off, Working days between Christmas and New Years Eve
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