Important High Level Summary NotesPlease read the overview below carefully. This is a standout technical ownership role and will appeal to engineers who want real influence, autonomy, and accountability.If this position is of interest, please contact me directly for a confidential conversation ASAP:Lorenz Pasch at Hays Recruitment: Mobile and email address are available on my LinkedIn profile.This is not a traditional cloud engineering role and not a position hidden behind layers of process, platforms, or support teamsThis is a senior cloud platform ownership role in a security-critical trading environment, offering genuine end-to-end responsibility, technical authority, and long-term platform influence.The successful candidate will act as the owner of the Azure and Kubernetes platform in production and will be trusted to design, secure, and evolve the environment with minimal constraint.You must be able to demonstrate:Genuine end-to-end ownership of a production cloud platform, not just contribution within a larger teamStrong hands-on experience across both Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes (AKS), with confidence operating each in depthMaking architectural and security decisions that materially affect the businessDirect ownership of incidents, outages, and recovery, with the ability to clearly articulate failure modes and improvementsComfort being the final technical escalation point, rather than relying on central platform, SRE, or security teamsIf your experience has been ..... full job details .....