Full-Time Lead, Cloud Engineering
Moniepoint is hiring a remote Full-Time Lead, Cloud Engineering. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Nigeria based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Job Title
Lead, Cloud Engineering
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Career Level
Full-Time
Career Level
Experienced
Locations Accepted
Nigeria
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We are looking for an experienced Lead, Cloud Engineering to drive the design, automation, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure across global fintech operations. You will lead a distributed team of cloud engineers responsible for ensuring our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure is secure, scalable, and resilient — powering critical financial services and high-volume payment systems. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight. You’ll work closely with backend, frontend, security, and SRE teams to strengthen our cloud foundations, optimize CI/CD processes, and ensure world-class uptime, compliance, and observability.
Responsibilities:
- Cloud Infrastructure Design and Deployment: Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions, using best practices, industry standards, and adhering to security guidelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess requirements and design scalable cloud architectures and resolve issues.
- Monitoring and Performance Optimization: Knowledge of monitoring solutions to track the performance, availability, and security of cloud infrastructure and applications. Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and security vulnerabilities. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure, network connectivity, and application deployments. Implement automation and orchestration techniques to streamline cloud operations and improve efficiency. Continuously evaluate and recommend improvements to optimize the cloud infrastructure and enhance system performance.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement automation tools/IaC such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible to streamline the provisioning, configuration, and deployment of cloud resources. Develop and maintain reusable templates and scripts for provisioning and configuring cloud resources. Implement version control and change management practices for infrastructure code.
- Security and Compliance: Implement robust security measures to protect cloud environments, data, and applications. Monitor and respond to security incidents, perform vulnerability assessments, and implement necessary remediation measures. Ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards, such as PCI-DSS etc.
- Collaboration and Documentation: Document infrastructure designs, technical processes, deployment processes, and operational procedures. Strong verbal and written communication skills to articulate complex concepts and ideas clearly. Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams. Contribute to knowledge sharing initiatives and provide training to team members on DevOps and cloud technologies.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Minimum 5 years as a Cloud Engineer or similar role, with a focus on automation, designing and managing cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Strong understanding of cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, and security.
- Solid understanding Jenkins, Git, continuous integration, continuous delivery.
- Proficiency with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, ELK stack).
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform, pulumi, CloudFormation and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
- Knowledge of scripting and programming languages, such as Go, Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Strong understanding of virtualization technologies, containerization (e.g., Docker, Docker compose, Kubernetes), and microservices architecture.
- Knowledge about Apache kafka
- Knowledge of networking concepts, protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS), and network security.
- Experience with webservers Nginx, Apache etc.
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What is the last date for applying to the job?
The deadline to apply for Full-Time Lead, Cloud Engineering at Moniepoint is
24th of November 2025
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Nigeria
] applicants. .
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