Lead, Cloud Engineering

Who We Are

Moniepoint is Africa's all-in-one financial ecosystem, empowering businesses and their customers with seamless payment, banking, credit, and management tools. In 2023, we processed $182 billion and are Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer.

What We Do

At Moniepoint, we are a customer-focused community, dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry. We have several products that provide essential services for businesses, such as credit, overdrafts, etc. We leverage artificial intelligence and data to make our decisions but also have the technology and data-driven best practices used to support our businesses.

About Moniepoint GB

Moniepoint GB is building a modern financial infrastructure to power global payments from the UK to Africa and beyond. We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Lead to lead the design, automation, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure across global fintech operations.

Curious about what makes Moniepoint an incredible place to work?  Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth.

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and mentor the Cloud Engineering team across multiple time zones.
• Define and execute Moniepoint's cloud infrastructure roadmap aligned with business and engineering goals.
• Establish best practices for automation, security, observability, and GitOps-driven operations.
• Collaborate with the CTO, Engineering Managers, and Security teams on scaling strategies, cost management, and reliability objectives.

Cloud Infrastructure & Automation

• Architect and manage infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Terraform and GitOps principles.
• Maintain and scale Kubernetes (GKE) clusters supporting Java/Spring-based microservices.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, Jenkins, Harness, and ArgoCD.
• Integrate and enforce code quality through SonarQube and automated security scans.
• Implement automated testing, deployment, and rollback mechanisms across environments.

Monitoring, Reliability & Operations

• Maintain platform observability using New Relic, Stackdriver, and custom dashboards.
• Oversee incident response and escalation processes with PagerDuty, ensuring continuous availability.
• Define and meet SLOs/SLAs aligned with business-critical systems (e.g., ≥99.99% uptime).
• Lead disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity initiatives, ensuring compliance with RTO/RPO targets.

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Enforce IAM, network, and data protection standards within GCP.
• Partner with Compliance and Security to uphold FCA, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 requirements.
• Ensure end-to-end encryption, secret management (Vault), and secure access controls.
• Champion continuous improvement in DevSecOps and cloud governance practices.

Cost Management & Optimization

• Monitor and optimize GCP spend across compute, storage, and database workloads.
• Introduce automation and reporting for cost visibility and anomaly detection.
• Collaborate with Finance and Product teams to forecast and manage cloud budgets.

Key Technologies

• Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE)
• CI/CD & Automation: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Harness, ArgoCD
• Monitoring & Alerting: New Relic, Stackdriver, PagerDuty
• Code Quality: SonarQube
• Programming & Runtime: Java, Spring Boot, Python, Bash
• Databases: Google Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL
• Version Control & Collaboration: GitLab

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering, with 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Deep expertise in GCP architecture, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Proven success managing CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows in production.
• Strong background in networking, systems reliability, and security fundamentals.
• Experience operating and scaling high-availability fintech or payment platforms.
• Solid understanding of observability, incident management, and SRE practices.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to regulated financial institutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• GCP Professional Cloud Architect or Cloud DevOps Engineer certification.
• Experience with distributed databases (e.g., Cloud Spanner).
• Exposure to ISO 27001 audits or FCA-regulated environments.
• Understanding of microservice-based architecture (Java/Spring) at scale.

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Analytical, structured, and proactive problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to lead distributed teams and balance strategic and hands-on work.
• Excellent documentation and process discipline.

What we can offer you

• Culture -We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We've built a company where all opinions carry weight and where every voice is heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
• Learning - We foster a learning and development-focused environment, emphasizing knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
• Compensation - You'll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, and annual bonus, plus other benefits.

What to expect in the hiring process

• A preliminary call with the recruiter
• A technical interview with the Hiring Manager
• A behavioral and technical interview with a member of the Executive team.

Moniepoint Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.