Lead Cloud Engineer
As a Lead Cloud Engineer in the Cloud Platforms Team, you will be the technical leader responsible for the strategic direction and continuous innovation of Trade Me's Cloud usage.
You will collaborate with Product and Platform Owners to deliver a highly self-service, secure, and extensible infrastructure product set, directly supporting Trade Me's strategic objectives.
You will partner with Engineering Managers to champion Cloud engineering best practices and play a key role in mentoring and training team members. Your leadership is crucial in building a culture of trust and cooperation across the organisation to enhance team effectiveness and success.
**Here is what you can expect from this role:**- Assume the mantle of technical leadership and ownership within the Cloud Platform team, advocate for the enablement and success of strategic initiatives, ensuring that the team's solutions align with the overarching technical vision and objectives.
- Work with relevant Principal Cloud Engineers to articulate complex technical and architectural designs, and to develop and implement a technical roadmap for our Cloud infrastructure.
- Lead the advocacy and implementation of engineering best practices across the Cloud Platforms team. This includes coding standards, design principles, testing methodologies, and development workflows.
- Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to ensure effective adoption of the products and self-service capabilities developed by the Cloud Platforms team, along with adherence to the guardrails and guidelines defined by the Cloud Platforms team.
- Work with Technical Product Owners during discovery phases to help with feasibility, capacity, and risk management of the Technology roadmap.
- Advocate for continuous delivery and observability practices across teams.
- Own the engineering metrics of your team and advocate for data-informed improvements.
- Contribute to Trade Me's light-weight governance process by drafting and implementing Guardrails, Guidelines, ADRs, and Tech Radar.
- Work closely with other technology leaders to improve the overall Technology experience.
- Deep understanding of public cloud web platforms preferably in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS.
- Demonstrable experience as an infrastructure engineer/cloud engineer / DevOps engineer designing and supporting highly available large web systems.
- Strong experience with "infrastructure as code" and automation, using tools like Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet, etc.
- Strong Networking Skills: VPCs, Security Groups, DNS, DHCP, IP, Firewall, Switching, Routing, Load-Balancing, etc.
- Strong architectural knowledge for designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems.
- Hands on experience with containerisation, micro-services, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD.
- Able to guide, inspire, and mentor their team by setting clear expectations, providing constructive feedback, and promoting a culture of continuous learning and growth.
- Able to convey complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively.
- Able to think critically and make informed decisions under pressure.
- Good level of understanding of Cloud Native application development
**You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:**
**#Flexibility:** Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance. We value team connection and come together in person on Monday and at least one other day a week.
**#Wellness:** Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way.**#Leave:** We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days of wellness leave each year and 10 days of sick leave from day 1.
**#Social:** Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more.
**#Learning:** Whether it's on the job, formal training, mentoring or something else, you'll grow with us from Day 1.
**Our Commitment to Diversity:**
We're firm believers that diversity fuels progress. To tackle existing inequality for women in technical leadership, we will be applying a preference for women when filling this role. The successful candidate will of course need to meet the core criteria for the role, and Trade Me will also take a broader perspective weighing up skills and experience alongside other factors such as future potential, diversity and the unique contribution you could make at Trade Me.
Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.