Lead Cloud Engineer

Overview

As Senior Cloud & Platform Engineering Lead, you will own the design, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise cloud platforms and migration initiatives. You’ll drive LSEG Post Trade’s cloud strategy with a focus on AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), automation, and cloud-native engineering. You lead high-performing teams, shape platform strategy, and ensure secure, scalable cloud services. This hands-on leadership role demands technical depth and strategic influence across engineering, architecture, and business partners. You will shape platforms, support hybrid-cloud integration, and advance governance and best practices.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive compensation package
• flexible working options
• healthcare
• retirement planning
• paid volunteering days
• wellbeing initiatives

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize AWS-based cloud platforms (EKS, Kubernetes, networking, identity, observability) for enterprise workloads
• Lead end-to-end cloud migration programmes: assessment, readiness, refactoring, transition planning
• Shape and deliver platform roadmaps for scalable, resilient, cost-efficient operations
• Champion automation-first engineering using Terraform, Ansible, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure platform reliability, security, and compliance with governance and architectural patterns
• Enable hybrid-cloud integration and selective Azure adoption where needed
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and operations to enforce guardrails and guidelines
• Lead and develop engineering teams and foster ownership, learning, and continuous improvement
• Coordinate sprint planning and delivery across multiple engineering streams
• Represent Cloud & Platform Engineering in governance, architecture, and programme forums
• Act as focal point for complex cloud and Kubernetes challenges and make informed decisions

Key requirements

• Deep AWS expertise (EKS, IAM, networking, compute, observability, security)
• Hands-on Kubernetes and container platforms operations and optimization
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD tooling
• Hybrid cloud architectures, networking, identity, and security controls
• Experience applying SRE principles, observability, and distributed systems at scale
• Proven track record leading cloud transformation and migration programmes
• Strong leadership and collaboration across engineering teams and stakeholders
• Ability to translate complex concepts for technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfort in fast-paced, enterprise-scale environments with multiple priorities

• leadership and people development
• cross-functional collaboration
• clear communication to diverse audiences
• AWS (including EKS, IAM, networking, observability, security)
• Kubernetes and container platform operations
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible)

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