Lead Cloud Engineer (Cloud Tooling)

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Your responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers delivering cloud-based developer tooling.
• Set goals, priorities, and performance expectations while fostering a collaborative, ownership-driven culture.
• Support onboarding and career development.
• Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of the Internal Engineering Platform.
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of GitLab Ultimate, Nexus Repository, SonarQube, and CI/CD tooling.
• Define platform standards, golden paths, and reusable components.
• Design scalable cloud solutions across AWS and GCP.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform and support key technical decisions.
• Ensure alignment with security, compliance, and platform engineering best practices.
• Improve developer productivity through automation and self-service capabilities.
• Simplify onboarding and enhance CI/CD workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to continuously improve the platform and developer experience.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and product stakeholders to align priorities and delivery.
• Communicate platform direction, progress, and priorities clearly.
• Balance competing demands across teams and domains.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled capabilities and modern platform engineering practices.
• Continuously optimise platform performance, cost, and user experience.

Our requirements

• Strong experience administering and configuring GitLab Ultimate (self-hosted).
• Hands-on expertise with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Proven experience working with AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience with developer tooling ecosystems, including Jenkins, Nexus (or equivalent), and SonarQube (or equivalent).
• Strong scripting skills, particularly in Python and Bash.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled developer tools, such as code assistants and intelligent CI/CD capabilities.
• Proven people leadership and team management experience.
• Strong solution design and architectural thinking.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to operate effectively within complex, large-scale engineering environments.
• Strategic mindset combined with a pragmatic, hands-on approach.
• Track record of improving platform reliability, developer productivity, and adoption of engineering standards.
• Focus on reducing software delivery lead times while maintaining high levels of team engagement and retention.
• Excellent command of English (written and spoken).

Optional

• Experience running platforms for large-scale engineering organisations
• Experience in platform engineering
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks
• Experience with observability and SRE practices

What we offer

• 30,000 - 38,000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract
• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
• Life insurance financed by the employer
• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
• Wellbeing programme for employees
• Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
• Employee referral programme

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