Lead Cloud Engineer

Overview

Kayana is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Cloud Engineer with significant hands-on experience in designing, delivering, and maintaining scalable, secure, high-performance, and cost-efficient cloud-native solutions across the organization. The role is critical in shaping Kayana's digital ecosystem that integrates systems, productizes data/services, and streamlines processes across various entities within and outside the organization. As a lead cloud engineer, you will collaborate closely with business, product, and engineering teams to translate objectives into end-to-end delivery of cloud-native solutions and ensure it meets performance, security, and compliance requirements. This role plays a pivotal part in Kayana's integration journey by delivering high-impact cloud-native solutions that drive exceptional products and services.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and own organization's cloud architectures across PaaS, SaaS models and various API- and data-driven technology stack, defining cloud-native patterns
• Ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of cloud solutions within organization's platforms
• Lead the implementation of IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) using tools like Terraform/CF, standardizing reusable modules and enforcing best practices
• Integrate cloud infrastructure with various DevOps tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Define performance metrics and implement monitoring solutions from Infra layer all the way up to Application/Product layer
• Ensure secure configurations, encryptions, access management, and compliance regulations whilst also performing regular security reviews and audits
• Support compliance audits by providing logs, documentation, and architecture
• Maintain and optimize cloud environments and implement autoscaling, serverless, and managed services to improve efficiency and reduce operational overhead
• Contribute to organization's monetization initiatives via AWS analytics, dashboards, logs, tags
• Collaborate with application owners, data architects, security teams, governance teams, business stakeholders, and partner vendors to ensure solution meet both functional and non-functional requirements
• Provide technical leadership in the selection, implementation and optimization of cloud-native solutions
• Establish observability practices and tools for tracking, logging, auditing, and improving platform reliability and performance
• Provide subject matter expertise during changes, incidents, root cause analysis related to failures and performance issues
• Keep updated of emerging cloud technologies and tools, evaluating and implementing them where they can deliver strategic advantage
• Identify opportunities for harnessing/innovation in cloud platform / infrastructure and automation
• Support and upskill internal cloud engineers through code reviews, architectural guidance, and hands-on problem solving
• Coach and mentor junior to mid-level engineers, creating high-performing engineering culture

Qualifications
Experience

• 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, architecture, and/or infrastructure roles
• Proven and validated experience in designing, building, and managing cloud-native solutions and cloud architectures (AWS primarily)
• Background in enterprise-grade systems and automation at scale
• Multiple cross-functional team collaboration in varying size and cloud maturity
• Prior experience in a lead and architect capacity, including technical leadership and decision making
• Start-up experience is a plus

Skills and Competencies

• Expertise in design, implementation, maintenance, and support of organization-wide cloud platform (AWS)
• Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments is a plus
• Knowledge on various cloud platforms (Azure, GCP)
• Proficiency in Terraform and CloudFormation
• Experience with Containerization (Docker) and Container Orchestration (Kubernetes) - EKS
• Skilled in CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins
• Strong scripting abilities in Python, Bash, PowerShell
• Familiarity with CloudWatch, Prometheus and similar tools for monitoring and logging
• Knowledge on IAM, encryption, network security, and compliance standards
• Cost and resource utilization and optimization of cloud solutions
• Knowledgeable and have experience in being part of a Cloud Capability Maturity journey
• Skilled in diagnosing cloud platform issues across complex systems and environments
• Ability to align cloud initiatives with enterprise architecture and long-term organization goals
• Strong written and verbal communication to business proponents around design and implementation of cloud solutions
• Management of multiple, federated cloud engineering teams
• Encourage innovation and continuous improvement in cloud delivery
• Proficiency in various Tools:
• Cloud - AWS; integration-related and data-related services
• API Management - AWS API Gateway
• DevOps and CI/CD tools – GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CI/CD services
• Secrets and Identity Management - AWS Secrets Manager
• Observability - AWS CloudWatch, ELK Stack
• Knowledge on integration and data practices
• Knowledge on various Azure and GCP services
• Skilled in managing multiple SIs around cloud delivery
• Has other relevant Cloud certifications
• iPaaS - WSO2, MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
• API Management - MuleSoft API Manager, Flex Gateway
• Observability - AWS X-Ray

Education / Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• Other relevant certifications in cloud, DevOps, integration, data, or security are a plus (i.e., Terraform, Kubernetes, GCP/Azure)

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology, Project Management, and Customer Service

Industries

• Financial Services and Data Infrastructure and Analytics

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