Lead Cloud Engineer

Job Title : Lead Cloud Engineer

Company Type : End Client

Employment Type : Full-Time

Work Arrangement : Remote in Spain

Contract Type : Direct hire with our client

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Lead Cloud Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in defining, building, and scaling our global cloud platform—starting from a greenfield foundation. Operating in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, you will influence how cloud technologies are adopted, governed, and optimized across the enterprise.

Your mission is to design and lead the implementation of a resilient, secure, and cost-effective cloud ecosystem. You’ll work cross-functionally to embed best practices, enforce cloud security, and implement automation across infrastructure and operations.

You will also play a critical role in building and leading a newly forming team as part of a department in recovery mode, offering the unique opportunity to build the cloud platform and the team around you.

Your Role

• Act as a technical and strategic leader, spearheading a greenfield platform build.
• Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of cloud services ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Build and manage a new 5-person cloud engineering team (including senior, mid, and junior engineers), mentoring talent and fostering a culture of excellence.
• Guide the adoption of cloud-native tools, IaC practices (Terraform, Ansible), and DevOps automation pipelines.
• Collaborate deeply with key stakeholders : Security, Architecture, Platform Engineering, Development, and SRE teams.
• Lead the technical decision-making and cloud enablement strategy to ensure successful and sustainable cloud adoption.
• Oversee cloud administration, platform security, and environment lifecycle management.
• Champion agile delivery, continuous improvement, and cultural transformation across teams and departments.

What We Look For in You

Leadership & Management

Technical Expertise

Why this role?

What You Need To Do Next

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Concentric Recruitment is a boutique recruitment firm with clients across Europe.