Cloud Technical Lead

Diageo is looking for a Cloud Technical Lead to drive cloud transformation initiatives, improve infrastructure reliability and scalability, and mentor cloud and infrastructure engineering teams.

About the Role The role requires a combination of technical leadership, architecture, hands-on engineering, operational excellence, security, automation, and stakeholder management.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud & Compute Leadership:
• Lead the architecture, deployment, and management of enterprise-scale cloud and compute environments.
• Manage cloud compute services, virtual machines, containers, storage, networking, and associated infrastructure.
• Drive cloud migration, modernization, and transformation initiatives across applications and infrastructure.
• Cloud Architecture & Engineering:
• Design secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Evaluate and implement cloud services across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives, including virtualization, containerization, and cloud-native technologies.
• Automation & DevOps:
• Drive infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Implement and improve CI/CD processes for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Promote automation for provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, patching, and operational tasks.
• Infrastructure Operations:
• Provide technical leadership for cloud infrastructure operations and production environments.
• Establish and monitor SLAs, SLOs, availability, capacity, and performance metrics.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management for critical cloud infrastructure.
• Security & Compliance:
• Partner with security teams to implement cloud security controls and best practices.
• Ensure appropriate identity and access management, encryption, network security, and security monitoring.
• Leadership & Stakeholder Management:
• Lead and mentor cloud, compute, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams.
• Provide technical direction and support career development of team members.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, application teams, cybersecurity, DevOps, and business stakeholders.

Experience/Skills Required

• Minimum 10 years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud computing, compute platforms, or related technologies.
• Strong hands-on and architectural experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS/Microsoft Azure/Google Cloud Platform (GCP)).
• Strong knowledge of cloud compute services such as EC2, Azure Virtual Machines, GCE, autoscaling, load balancing, and serverless technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows server administration.
• Experience with DevOps tools and CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with scripting/automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies.

Benefits

• Flexibility to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities.
• Highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with a diverse team and contribute to making life's moments mean a little more.