Engineering Lead - Cloud

Requirements

• Experienced engineering leader: You have a proven track record of overseeing the lifecycle of large, distributed global platform. You are comfortable navigating a flat structure where "winning is more important than ego," leading via influence and technical competence rather than hierarchical authority.
• Cloud and Infrastructure domain knowledge: You possess a deep understanding of private cloud technologies (Mastering OpenStack, network topologies) and expertise in public cloud adoption with major providers. You are familiar with configuration management frameworks like Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
• Bring a strong engineering perspective: You act as a bridge between commercial and technical stakeholders, translating complex constraints (certification timelines, hardware limitations) into clear strategies. You have a bias towards impact and the courage to "Talk Straight," providing direct feedback to peers and avoiding corporate politics.
• Hands-on leader: While this is a management role, you are comfortable having technical/domain-relevant discussions regarding network protocols (TCP/IP, TLS, WebSockets) and large distributed systems to guide your teams. You are capable of driving "Minimum Viable Products" (MVPs) to pilot teams to gather real-world feedback quickly.

Nice to haves

• Prior experience with banking platforms, or managing highly regulated platforms.
• Deep understanding of network engineering challenges in hostile environments and security integrity monitoring.

What you'll be doing

• You will hyper-focus on your customer needs: by creating and managing a platform that will be consumed as a product.
• Lead and grow a high-performing global team: You will directly manage distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones (Amsterdam, US, APAC), ensuring a unified engineering culture and seamless collaboration. You will lead large cross-functional "Squads," ensuring architectural coherence while fostering team independence and autonomy.
• Bring structure and process to execution: You will introduce and refine operational processes to achieve excellent levels of availability (99.999%) even during peak events. This involves managing multiple configuration systems, driving standardization to reduce regulatory risk, and overseeing high-stake vendor relationships and contractual terms.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence: You will instill a culture where engineers own production, on-call rotations, and incident response. You will ensure technical decisions utilize an open-source first approach, capable of driving code changes in critical environments rather than relying on a separate NOC.
• Scale for massive growth: You will guide the team to address key challenges related to managing large global platforms (OpenStack, CloudStack) and public cloud adoption. This includes driving projects to migrate from legacy systems to cloud-native setups and managing persistent connections in hostile network environments (e.g., traversing restrictive corporate firewalls).
• Integrate security and best practices: You will be responsible for ensuring security-first mindsets are integrated into the platform, utilizing attestation and integrity monitoring to prevent tampering. You will offer a "golden-path" for standardization that benefits all customers, generalizing specific requests into platform-wide capabilities.
• Scale AI practices in the platforms group: bring not only productivity improvements in ways of working but also make AI an integral part of the platform, improving resilience metrics and platform uptime.

Perks and benefits

• Role based out of Amsterdam office
• Office-first company with value in in-person collaboration