Urgent Freelance Cloud Team Lead
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cloud Team Lead to lead our cloud engineering team. This role combines technical expertise, people leadership, and strategic governance to ensure our cloud infrastructure is secure, scalable, cost-effective, and aligned with business goals. The ideal candidate will be responsible for team development, operational excellence, budget management, and cloud architecture oversight.
Responsibilities
* Lead, mentor, and coach a team of cloud engineers, architects, and DevOps professionals.
* Manage team workload, priorities, and capacity planning.
* Define and enforce governance policies for cloud usage, access, and resource management.
* Establish guardrails and monitoring frameworks to maintain control and visibility over cloud assets.
* Manage the cloud services budget across multiple platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
* Monitor usage and optimize cloud costs through rightsizing, reserved instances, and automated scaling.
* Provide accurate forecasts and monthly reports to leadership on spend and ROI.
* Negotiate contracts and manage relationships with cloud vendors and service providers.
* Drive the design, implementation, and evolution of cloud architectures and platforms.
* Provide technical leadership on cloud migrations, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and automation initiatives.
* Ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and security of cloud-hosted systems.
* Stay current with emerging cloud technologies and trends, evaluating potential adoption.
* Guide team members through challenges in design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
Additional Details:
* START DATE:
Flexible
* DURATION:
Long term
* CONTRACT:
Freelance
* ONSITE POLICY:
Hybrid
* HOURS PER WEEK:
40
* LANGUAGES:
English and Dutch
* INTERVIEW PROCESS:
One stage
If you are interested or know anyone who could be a good fit please send your CV to