Senior Cloud Hosting Engineer

Moneycorp

. Own one or more hosting services end to end, including design, roadmap, documentation, consumer experience and retirement .

Posted 11/12/2026full-timeBucharest • RomaniaSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and managing cloud hosting services, with a strong focus on infrastructure-as-code using OpenTofu/Terraform, automation, and compliance with regulatory standards. Proven ability to lead incident management, mentor engineers, and optimize hosting patterns for performance and cost-effectiveness.

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Cloud Hosting EngineeringOpenTofu/Terraform ExpertiseIncident Management LeadershipAutomation with AnsibleRegulated Industry Experience

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Hard Skills

Infrastructure-As-CodeHosting Service DesignContainer Platform OperationCI/CD with GitHub ActionsObservability with Azure MonitorDisaster Recovery DesignConfiguration ManagementSLO DefinitionSecurity Best PracticesNetworking Knowledge

Soft Skills

Mentoring EngineersKnowledge SharingIncident Review Facilitation

Tools & Technologies

AzureAnsiblePowerShellBashPythonAzure DevOpsAzure MonitorLog AnalyticsApplication InsightsKey Vault

Certifications & Qualifications

AZ-305 Azure Solutions ArchitectFinOps Practitioner

Industry Keywords

Regulatory ComplianceFinancial ServicesHealthcareGovernmentOperational Resilience

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAzureCloudDNSLinuxPackerPythonTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own one or more hosting services end to end, including design, roadmap, documentation, consumer experience and retirement
Design hosting patterns and golden paths in the service catalogue
Decide which workloads fit each hosting pattern
Work with application teams to understand their needs and measure service adoption
Feed hosting requirements into Platform Engineering for landing zones and shared modules
Contribute to the hosting roadmap with the Hosting Lead and Cloud Architects
Set infrastructure-as-code standards for hosting in OpenTofu/Terraform
Review other engineers’ work against hosting standards
Design OS and stack automation for long-lived virtual machines at scale, including drift detection and correction
Design golden image and patching pipelines for Windows and Linux
Identify major sources of toil and lead efforts to remove them
Design pipelines that serve as the change record
Establish patterns for immutable images, blue/green and canary releases, and automated rollback
Use DORA metrics to identify and resolve bottlenecks in hosting changes
Agree service level objectives with consuming teams and own reporting against them
Lead major incidents for the hosting estate and serve as senior escalation point on the on-call rota
Run blameless post-incident reviews and ensure follow-up actions are completed
Design auto-remediation and self-healing for known failure modes
Design disaster recovery for hosting services and lead recovery tests
Build secure defaults into hosting patterns, including managed identities, private endpoints, least-privilege RBAC and Key Vault
Ensure hosting services meet UK, EU and US operational resilience and regulatory requirements
Ensure compliance evidence is generated through pipelines and tooling
Build cost awareness into hosting patterns through right-sizing, tagging standards and cost-effective defaults
Mentor Cloud Hosting Engineers through pairing, code review and incident shadowing
Maintain hosting standards, runbooks and design notes
Run demonstrations and knowledge-sharing sessions

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of hands-on engineering experience in cloud hosting, infrastructure, platform or SRE roles
Experience designing and running production hosting services on Azure at enterprise scale
Expert OpenTofu/Terraform skills, including module design, state, testing and pipeline delivery
Experience managing large Linux and Windows server fleets through configuration management such as Ansible
Experience designing and operating a container platform in production
Experience leading major incidents and post-incident reviews
Experience defining service level objectives with service consumers
Experience delivering in a regulated industry such as financial services, healthcare or government
Experience mentoring engineers
Knowledge of Azure App Service, Functions, Container Apps, virtual machines and scale sets, Azure Compute Gallery and Azure Update Manager
Infrastructure-as-code expertise with OpenTofu/Terraform module and stack design, testing and policy as code
Automation skills with Ansible or similar, plus PowerShell, Bash or Python
CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, progressive delivery and automated rollback
Observability experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, SLO reporting and alert design
Security knowledge including Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, PIM, Key Vault, private endpoints, vulnerability and patch management
Resilience knowledge including backup, disaster recovery design and testing, availability zones and regional failover
Networking knowledge including DNS, private endpoints, ingress and egress, and connectivity troubleshooting
Relevant degree desirable, or equivalent competencies in college
AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect certification desirable
Azure Container Apps in production desirable
Experience with Packer or Azure Image Builder desirable
Experience evidencing controls for FCA, PRA, DORA or FFIEC requirements desirable
Experience using AI-assisted tooling for operations and automation desirable
FinOps Practitioner certification or hands-on cost optimisation desirable
Legal right to work in Romania

Benefits

Comp & perks

Full-time, permanent employment
Hybrid working in Bucharest
Fully remote working arrangement available for candidates located outside Bucharest within Romania
Inclusive workplace culture and Employee Engagement initiatives
Value champion networks
Employee feedback and regular assessments supporting inclusivity