Capital on Tap - Cloud Engineering Team Lead

• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, providing meaningful mentorship and constructive feedback that helps engineers grow. • Driving team performance by resolving bottlenecks, fostering accountability, and sustaining high engagement to ensure consistent delivery & resource efficiency. • Driving the adoption of AI within the team, ranging from day to day operations to large scale projects. • Foster open, transparent communication across remote, hybrid, and in-person environments. • Stay hands on in cloud engineering, leading by example at a technical level. • Defining and enforcing cloud engineering best practices that ensure consistency, scalability and operational excellence across the organisation. • Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and QA to align strategy and turn ideas into well-executed outcomes. • Contribute to product decisions, bringing a cloud perspective that balances speed, quality and scalability. • Proactively identify and mitigate risk before they come blockers. • Embed DevSecOps principles; ensuring security, monitoring, compliance, and automation are built in from the start. • Our Values & Culture • Just Pilot: We never settle for “good enough”. We pilot new ideas fast, ask questions to figure it out, and scale quickly. • Why Not Today? Fast is as slow as we go - speed and simplicity gives us a competitive advantage. • Be a Buddy: We tap in from day one to help the team, we do the right thing even if it’s hard. • Owners and Dates: We don’t chase people. If you own a task and agree to a date, the expectation is that it gets done. • Feedback: We want our employees to flourish, so we regularly provide direct and constructive feedback. • What are we looking for 🔍 • A track record of leading and delivering complex projects. • Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and the appetite to own the full management remit, from hiring and development through to the harder people conversations. • Extensive experience managing public cloud environments. • Proficient in contributing to IaC technologies involving expertise in writing, managing, and optimising infrastructure with tools such as Terraform. • Experience using CI/CD tools, building pipelines, templates and troubleshooting. • Experience with applying high availability across cloud architectures, ideally including multi-cloud. • Experience with containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker. • A customer-focused, commercially aware and data-informed approach to your decision making. • Ability to manage cross-team dependencies, collaborating effectively with Platform, SRE, Product, and other stakeholders. • Even if you don’t have all of the necessary skills, we still encourage you to apply. • Interview process 🤝 • First stage: 30 minute intro and values call with Talent Partner • Second stage: 60 minute technical interview with the Engineering Manager & People Partner • Third stage: 60 minute live technical challenge with the Platform team • Fourth stage: 60 minute case study with Product, the Engineering Manager & Head of Platform Operations • Diversity & Inclusion 🌈 • We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.