Lead Cloud Engineer – Hybrid Cloud (Financial Services)

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer to define and execute our hybrid cloud strategy within a regulated financial services environment. The role requires deep hands‑on expertise across on‑premise, hybrid, and public cloud platforms, with a focus on secure, compliant migrations.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and manage hybrid cloud environments (on‑prem + cloud).
• Own and execute on‑premise to cloud migrations while minimizing business risk.
• Design secure landing zones, networking, and identity integrations.
• Optimize cloud cost, performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Ensure high availability, resilience, security, and performance across platforms.
• Lead infrastructure lifecycle management, including capacity planning, patching, and upgrades.
• Act as senior technical authority for cloud and infrastructure decisions.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption and automation.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and modern application delivery models.

Required profile

• Minimum 8 + years of IT infrastructure and cloud experience.
• Mandatory experience in the financial services industry.
• Proven ownership of on‑premise to cloud migrations.
• Strong expertise in VMware and enterprise networking.
• Hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience working in regulated, audit‑driven environments.

Required skills

• VMware virtualization platforms.
• Enterprise networking and security.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Infrastructure as Code – Terraform.
• CI/CD tools and automation.
• Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Python.
• Monitoring and logging platforms.