About the Role
Who We Are Moniepoint is an all-in-one financial services platform for emerging markets, and it is the second-fastest-growing company in Africa. Since 2019, Moniepoint’s technology has powered over 3 million people, offering personal and business banking, payment, credit, and business management tools to help them succeed. Moniepoint processed $182 billion in 2023 and currently processes the majority of the POS transactions in Nigeria. Moniepoint GB is building a modern financial infrastructure to power global payments from the UK to Africa and beyond. Curious about what makes Moniepoint an incredible place to work? Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth. About the role We are looking for an experienced Lead, Cloud Engineering to drive the design, automation, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure across global fintech operations. You will lead a distributed team of cloud engineers responsible for ensuring our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure is secure, scalable, and resilient — powering critical financial services and high-volume payment systems. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight. You’ll work closely with backend, frontend, security, and SRE teams to strengthen our cloud foundations, optimize CI/CD processes, and ensure world-class uptime, compliance, and observability. Responsibilities: Cloud Infrastructure Design and Deployment: Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions, using best practices, industry standards, and adhering to security guidelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including development, operations, and security, to assess requirements and design scalable cloud architectures and resolve issues. Monitoring and Performance Optimization: Knowledge of monitoring solutions to track the performance, availability, and security of cloud infrastructure and applications. Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, scalabi