Lead Cloud Engineer

At Kayana, we're shaping the future of technology by unlocking opportunities and driving progress at an accelerated pace. We push boundaries, expand horizons, and build on our legacy—supported by some of the country's most esteemed conglomerates and powered by the synergies of the MVP Group.

Our mission is clear : to create abundant opportunities and pave the way for generational progress for Filipinos. Harnessing the power of data and technology, we are leading the charge in crafting a new world where individuals and businesses are seamlessly connected to a digital universe, enabling them to do more and be more.

Job Summary :

Kayana is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Cloud Engineer with significant hands-on experience in designing, delivering, and maintaining scalable, secure, high-performance, and cost-efficient cloud-optimized solutions across the organization.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, implement, and own organization’s cloud architectures across PaaS, SaaS models and various API- and data-driven technology stack, defining cloud-optimized patterns
• Ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of cloud solutions within organization’s platforms
• Lead the implementation of IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) using tools like Terraform / CF, standardizing reusable modules and enforcing best practices
• Integrate cloud infrastructure with various DevOps tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Define performance metrics and implement monitoring solutions from Infra layer all the way up to Application / Product layer
• Ensure secure configurations, encryptions, access management, and compliance regulations whilst also performing regular security reviews and audits
• Support compliance audits by providing logs, documentation, and architecture
• Maintain and optimize cloud environments and implement autoscaling, serverless, and managed services to improve efficiency and reduce operational overhead
• Contribute to organization’s monetization initiatives via AWS analytics, dashboards, logs, tags
• Collaborate with application owners, data architects, security teams, governance teams, business stakeholders, and partner vendors to ensure solution meet both functional and non-functional requirements
• Provide technical leadership in the selection, implementation and optimization of cloud-optimized solutions
• Establish observability practices and tools for tracking, logging, auditing, and improving platform reliability and performance
• Provide subject matter expertise during changes, incidents, root cause analysis related to failures and performance issues
• Keep updated of emerging cloud technologies and tools, evaluating and implementing them where they can deliver strategic advantage
• Identify opportunities for harnessing / innovation in cloud platform / infrastructure and automation
• Support and upskill internal cloud engineers through code reviews, architectural guidance, and hands-on problem solving
• Coach and mentor junior to mid-level engineers, creating high-performing engineering culture

Qualifications :

Skills and Competencies

Education / Certifications :

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

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