Lead Cloud Engineer

**About GFT**

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.

**Role Summary**

We are seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer (7-10 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 mínimal 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: 7-10 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.

**About Us**:
We show commitment to our investors and stand for solid, long-term growth performance. Founded in Germany in 1987 and in American territory since 2008, GFT expanded globally to over 10,000 experts. And to more than 15 markets to ensure proximity to clients. With new opportunities from Asia to Brazil, the international growth story continues. We are committed to grow tech talents worldwide. Because our team’s strong consulting and development skills across legacy and pioneering technologies, like GreenCoding, underpin success. We maintain a family atmosphere in an inclusive work environment.

**Why Choose GFT?**:

- Competitive Compensation
- Benefits package including comprehensive medical, dental, vision and others