Lead, Cloud Engineering at Moniepoint Inc.

About the Role

• You will lead a distributed team of cloud engineers responsible for ensuring our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure is secure, scalable, and resilient — powering critical financial services and high-volume payment systems.
• This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight. You’ll work closely with backend, frontend, security, and SRE teams to strengthen our cloud foundations, optimize CI/CD processes, and ensure world-class uptime, compliance, and observability.

Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Strategy:

• Lead and mentor the Cloud Engineering team across multiple time zones.
• Define and execute Moniepoint’s cloud infrastructure roadmap aligned with business and engineering goals.
• Establish best practices for automation, security, observability, and GitOps-driven operations.
• Collaborate with the CTO, Engineering Managers, and Security teams on scaling strategies, cost management, and reliability objectives.

Cloud Infrastructure & Automation:

• Architect and manage infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Terraform and GitOps principles.
• Maintain and scale Kubernetes (GKE) clusters supporting Java/Spring-based microservices.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, Jenkins, Harness, and ArgoCD.
• Integrate and enforce code quality through SonarQube and automated security scans.
• Implement automated testing, deployment, and rollback mechanisms across environments.

Monitoring, Reliability & Operations:

• Maintain platform observability using New Relic, Stackdriver, and custom dashboards.
• Oversee incident response and escalation processes with PagerDuty, ensuring continuous availability.
• Define and meet SLOs/SLAs aligned with business-critical systems (e.g., ≥99.99% uptime).
• Lead disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity initiatives, ensuring compliance with RTO/RPO targets.

Security, Compliance & Governance:

• Enforce IAM, network, and data protection standards within GCP.
• Partner with Compliance and Security to uphold FCA, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 requirements.
• Ensure end-to-end encryption, secret management (Vault), and secure access controls.
• Champion continuous improvement in DevSecOps and cloud governance practices.

Cost Management & Optimization:

• Monitor and optimize GCP spend across compute, storage, and database workloads.
• Introduce automation and reporting for cost visibility and anomaly detection.
• Collaborate with Finance and Product teams to forecast and manage cloud budgets.

Key Technologies:

• Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE)
• CI/CD & Automation: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Harness, ArgoCD
• Monitoring & Alerting: New Relic, Stackdriver, PagerDuty
• Code Quality: SonarQube
• Programming & Runtime: Java, Spring Boot, Python, Bash
• Databases: Google Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL
• Version Control & Collaboration: GitLab

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering, with 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Deep expertise in GCP architecture, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Proven success managing CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows in production.
• Strong background in networking, systems reliability, and security fundamentals.
• Experience operating and scaling high-availability fintech or payment platforms.
• Solid understanding of observability, incident management, and SRE practices.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to regulated financial institutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• GCP Professional Cloud Architect or Cloud DevOps Engineer certification.
• Experience with distributed databases (e.g., Cloud Spanner).
• Exposure to ISO 27001 audits or FCA-regulated environments.
• Understanding of microservice-based architecture (Java/Spring) at scale.

Soft Skills:

• Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Analytical, structured, and proactive problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to lead distributed teams and balance strategic and hands-on work.
• Excellent documentation and process discipline.