Lead Cloud Engineer, Rapha
4 days a week in office
Cycling apparel brand
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Cycling apparel brand
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To inspire the world to live life by bike.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure at scale (AWS preferred)
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Strong working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.)
- Solid experience with modern infrastructure patterns such as - serverless, event-driven architecture, container orchestration
- Deep understanding of cloud-native testing strategies and quality automation
- Experience leading engineering initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, and delivery velocity
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams
Desirable
- Familiarity with MACH principles and composable commerce ecosystems
- Exposure to observability platforms (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
- Experience with other cloud providers (GCP, Azure) and DevOps tooling
- Background in building internal platforms or developer experience tooling
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a highly skilled Lead Cloud Engineer to drive the evolution of our cloud infrastructure, enabling our teams to scale rapidly with high reliability, security, and efficiency
- You’ll lead architectural decisions, define and enforce best practices, and own testing strategy across our event-driven, serverless-first platform
- This is a strategic and hands-on role at the heart of our composable commerce and MACH-aligned engineering function
- Oversee and shape the technical stack, ensuring it evolves with our needs
- Lead the design, implementation and optimisation of high-quality, event-driven cloud services
- Define and enforce best practices for IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, and cost management
- Support and lead platform-wide initiatives to reduce toil, improve observability, and increase deployment velocity
- Guide and own architectural decisions across services and systems
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure readiness for scale and resilience
- Build and mentor a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
- Embed security, compliance, and incident response best practices into cloud workflows
- Ensure system reliability and performance through proactive engineering practices
- Partner with stakeholders to streamline developer experience — including onboarding, tooling, and documentation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Rapha is a cycling apparel brand that aspires to create items of the highest possible quality by using advanced manufacturing techniques. Having been the clothing supplier to Team Sky, as well as the women’s UCI WorldTour team CANYON//SRAM, Rapha has worked to align itself with the best names in sport.
The company has seen a series of ups and downs as UK consumer interest in cycling rises and falls. For example, it was able to capitalise on peaks in the market generated first in the wake of the 2012 Olympics, as well as during the pandemic - though it has also faced lulls. Despite this, the company remains positive, and says it has made moves that put it in position to unlock its next phase of growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Access to a Global Employee Assistance Programme
- A variety of resources to support your mental health and wellbeing
- Monthly social events
- Quarterly team away days
- Regular talks and events organised by our Culture Club
- Generous annual leave rising with length of service
- Enhanced parental leave options
- Enhanced pension schemes
- Healthcare
- Lessons to build confidence, inspire and support those at the beginning of their cycling journey (you don't need your own bike to take part)
- Annual testing allowance so you can put our products through their paces
- Significant staff discount
- Flexible working - we just have core hours for collaboration and time with out teams
Company HQ
Archway, London, UK
Leadership
Simon Mottram
(Founder & Director)Previously Brand Marketing Consultant at various companies, including Interbrand, Sapient, Circus and Fourth Room.
Fran Millar
(CEO)Previously CEO at Belstaff, INEOS Hygienics and INEOS Grenadiers Cycling Team.
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