Senior Cloud Engineer (Financial Industry)

We are partnering with a leading global financial technology organization seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join its Cloud Operations function. This team is responsible for building, automating, and supporting large-scale cloud infrastructure that powers mission-critical platforms within a highly regulated, high-availability environment. This role focuses on designing, implementing, and operating secure, cloud-native infrastructure solutions.

The successful candidate will play a key role in driving automation, enhancing platform reliability, establishing engineering best practices, and leading the delivery of strategic cloud initiatives. Key

Build, maintain, and automate globally distributed cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform. Partner with platform engineering and application development teams to design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions. Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes-based platforms and workloads (EKS, GKE, Cluster API), leveraging GitOps methodologies and tools such as Argo CD.

Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation capabilities. Perform system administration activities, including deployments, upgrades, patching, backup, and recovery operations. Support production cloud environments through incident response, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and operational excellence initiatives.

Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to maintaining high platform availab