Thredd is seeking an experienced Staff Cloud Engineer to join our evolving Cloud Engineering team. Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure, you will play a key role in shaping our cloud strategy, working closely with teams across the Technology department to drive innovation, scalability, and operational excellence.
This is a hands-on senior role where you will leverage your deep expertise in AWS and cloud best practices to optimize performance, security, and cost efficiency. As a key driver of Cloud Engineering capability, you will focus on quality, delivery, and automation to enhance our infrastructure.
What You’ll Be Doing
Designing and implementing secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions that support business objectives.
Acting as a trusted advisor, guiding internal stakeholders on cloud best practices and optimizations.
Driving an automation-first mindset, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to reduce manual effort.
Establishing and enforcing best practices for cloud architecture, security, and operations.
Developing automated monitoring and reporting pipelines to track cloud resource utilization, performance, and cost efficiency.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align cloud projects with business goals.
Providing expert guidance on resolving complex cloud infrastructure issues while minimizing operational disruption.
What We’re Looking For
Extensive AWS expertise, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, and CloudFormation.
Strong experience in AWS networking, including VPC, Direct Connect, and Route 53.
Deep understanding of cloud cost optimization, multi-account strategies, and security tooling.
Strong configuration management practices, with hands-on experience in Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
Experience integrating security into the development lifecycle and applying AWS security best practices.
Solid knowledge of networking principles, including DNS, VPN, firewalls, and load balancers.
Hands-on experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus and CloudWatch.
Familiarity with regulatory compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, PCI DSS, SOC 2) and their impact on cloud deployments.
A Bit About Us
Thredd is the trusted next-gen payments partner for innovators looking to modernise their payments offering. Certified by Mastercard, Visa and Diners & Discover, we process billions of debit, prepaid, and credit transactions annually, supporting consumer and corporate fintechs, digital banks, and embedded finance providers across the globe. Our unique offering is our client-centric approach, combining hands-on support with modern, reliable, and scalable technology. Our assured solution accelerates the development and delivery of consumer and corporate payments components embedded within digital banks, as well as for expense management, B2B payments, crypto, lending, credit, Buy Now Pay Later, FX, remittance, and open banking innovators.
Top Skills
What We Do
We are Thredd, formerly Global Processing Services. Thredd sits at the heart of the global payments revolution, processing billions of issuer transactions annually across 44 countries for the world’s leading fintechs, digital banks, and embedded finance providers.
Thredd’s unique offering is its client-centric approach combining hands-on support with modern, reliable, and scalable technology. Thredd’s assured solution accelerates the development and delivery of consumer and corporate payments components embedded within digital banks, as well as for expense management, B2B payments, crypto, lending, credit, Buy Now Pay Later (“BNPL”), FX, remittance, and open banking innovators. By partnering with our clients from concept to creation with our easily configurable solutions, we allow these leaders the agility to achieve their core business aspirations.
Thredd has enabled market leaders since 2007 and has a highly reliable platform with 99.99% availability. Thredd’s highly customisable solutions on our API-first platform, surrounded by our in-depth industry expertise, value added services, global presence and technical resilience, are designed to scale with ease. Thredd is certified by Visa and Mastercard to process transactions globally.
The company has branded offices in London, Newcastle, Singapore, and Sydney, with remote colleagues based all over the world.
The issuer processing partner of choice for the world's most ambitious businesses.
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