Lead Cloud Engineer at Xdesign · United Kingdom
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AWS
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Airflow
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Azure
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dbt
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Core Technical Capabilities
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Candidates must demonstrate a hybrid skillset, balancing Software Engineering (30%), Platform/SRE (40%), and Data Engineering (30%), with a
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Advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) via Terraform, advanced Kubernetes administration (clusters, nodes, pods), hardcore networking (VPC pe
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Experience implementing modern observability tooling (OpenTelemetry) alongside automated cost-control systems (such as Karpenter, Infracost,
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Domain & Sector Experience
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Experience working in highly regulated sectors such as Financial Services or iGaming is helpful, demonstrating an understanding of strict co
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Proven background in a client-facing consulting capacity, managing stakeholders, handling commercial realities, and meeting strict SLAs, tim
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Why they ask: AWS is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Azure is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
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Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
Why they ask: Looks for red flags and motivation.
How to answer: Stay positive: what you want next, not what you dislike.
Why they ask: Fit and ambition check.
How to answer: Tie your growth to the problems this team is solving.
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