Lead Cloud Engineer

Department: Technology

Employment Type: A término indefinido - A tiempo completo

Location: Bucharest

Reporting To: Tom Hermolle

Description

RecoTek is Reconomy’s new centralized technology hub located in Bucharest, Romania, officially launched in February 2024. Serving as the backbone of Reconomy’s tech operations, it consolidates inhouse expertise across all Reconomy brands to accelerate platform development and enhance service delivery.

Reconomy is an international circular economy specialist that combines technology, skills and incredible people to enable businesses to better manage their resources, helping reduce waste, optimise their supply chains, and contribute in a meaningful way toward the circular economy

Reconomy is bending the edges of linear business models across the world, integrating circular economy strategies and processes into everyday operations. We have the tools, talent and technology that enable customers to harness the full and inherent value of their resources, with integrated global operations in over 80 countries across the world.

Reconomy’s full range of capabilities are organized into 3 ‘loops’: Recycle, Comply and Re-use, each providing opportunities for circularity within the wider resource cycle.

Recycle loop is utilising the latest technology and data to enable customers to make the best possible use of their materials.
Comply loop is enabling customers to solve increasingly complex environmental regulatory challenges using data, expert knowledge and thought leadership to drive business accountability across the globe.
Re-use loop is providing intelligent technology platforms and agile delivery models for pre-retail logistics and product returns, fulfilment and processing, on behalf of many of Europe’s largest retailers.

About the role

🧩 About this role

In this role, you will lead a team of Cloud Engineers to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms across the Reconomy Group. You will drive the adoption of modern DevOps, SecOps, and FinOps practices, enabling engineering teams to deliver faster and more efficiently. This position combines hands-on technical expertise with team leadership and cross-functional collaboration in a global, cloud-first organisation.

What we need from you

🔧 What you’ll do

Lead and mentor a cross-divisional team of Cloud Engineers
Design and deliver scalable, secure, highly available Azure/AWS cloud infrastructure
Drive a real shift-left DevSecOps/FinOps culture across the organisation
Build automated IaC platform solutions (Terraform/Bicep/Ansible)
Partner with engineering teams globally to enable 24/7 resilient applications
Own cloud cost governance, CI/CD maturity and platform reliability
Influence architecture, process improvement, and engineering excellence

💡 What we’re looking for

Strong technical leadership in cloud engineering
Solid experience with Azure (preferred), AWS, IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes
Deep understanding of DevOps, SecOps, FinOps practices
Ability to build scalable cloud platforms and modern automation frameworks
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
A leader who inspires, coaches, and lifts teams

🎯Top 3 Must-Have

Strong multi-cloud technical expertise (Azure preferred) with advanced IaC (Terraform/Bicep) and automation skills, plus solid FinOps knowledge
Proven leadership and change-management capability (50% hands-on / 50% leadership), able to drive DevSecOps adoption and process transformation across teams
Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including the ability to proactively manage and prioritize a shared backlog serving multiple delivery streams, while acting as an AI champion for productivity improvement

What we offer

This role offers you the chance to work in a friendly, diverse and international environment, along with colleagues who will share your passion for innovation, agile-working and growth. You will also be able to develop your skills within the exciting and challenging market of Reverse Logistics!
Hybrid working environment
Training and development to keep you in touch with the latest technologies and the opportunities to apply your learning.
We offer a competitive salary alongside other benefits*
Our office is easily accessible located near the city center of Bucharest, and designed to make you feel at home
21 working days of annual leave, plus 2 additional days allowed for participation in volunteering programs, and 1 extra day off for your birthday
Meal vouchers: 40 RON per working day (taxed according to current legislation)
Private medical subscription at Regina Maria.

About the role

What we need from you

What we offer

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