GFT Technologies Vietnam

Overview of job

Role Summary 

We are seeking an experienced Senior/Lead Cloud Engineer (7–10 years) with deep expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive the design, implementation, and governance of cloud-native infrastructure for our banking clients. This role requires both hands-on technical capability and leadership skills to guide engineering teams, ensure architectural best practices, and deliver scalable, secure, and compliant solutions. You will partner closely with delivery managers, architects, and product teams to set the direction for cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.

Key Responsibilities 

• Technical Leadership: Provide architectural direction and technical leadership across multiple product teams building on AWS. 
• Cloud Strategy & Roadmap: Define and evolve cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals, regulatory requirements, and security standards. 
• Architecture Ownership: Own the end-to-end architecture of AWS-based infrastructure, including networking, compute, storage, and security models. 
• Mentorship & Governance: Mentor Cloud Engineers (L3/L4) and establish best practices for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud security. 
• Complex Migrations: Lead large-scale cloud migration initiatives (on-prem to AWS) ensuring minimal downtime and full compliance. 
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with Delivery, Security, and Product stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical designs. 
• Innovation & Tooling: Evaluate emerging AWS services and DevOps tools, driving adoption of solutions that reduce operational toil and improve delivery velocity. 
• Service Reliability: Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs for cloud infrastructure, ensuring resilience, performance, and observability. 
• Compliance & Security: Drive adherence to security standards (PCI-DSS, ISO, SOC2) and ensure proper IAM governance, encryption, and audit readiness. 
• Incident Leadership: Provide escalation support for critical production issues, leading root cause analysis and continuous improvement actions. 

HR benefits

• Competitive salary
• Salary band per level are reviewed once per year
• 13th month salary pro rata depending on the employee’s length of service (within a calender year), paid with the December salary
• Monthly lunch allowance: 700,000 VND/employee
• Parking: GFT covers the monthly parking fee for employee motorbikes
• Performance evaluation is once per year, for 2 purposes:
     > Performance bonus   > Salary increments

Health care

• Private health insurance: including accident, outpatient, in-patient, maternity, and dental for all permanent employees who pass 2-month probation.
• Optical: expense claim for eyewear
• Annual health check-ups.

Vacation

• Maximum 18-day vacation leave/year (with the ability to carry over 05 days till 31st March of the following year)
• Adding one more annual leave day for each two-year anniversary.

Healthy lifestyle

• Sports and hobby clubs: company has an annual fund for fitness activities, which is allocated per month as team’s vote.
• Range of healthy snacks, tea, coffee, milk and beer on tap

Social

• Company townhall: each 6 weeks
• CSR activities: as per company’s CSR guideline
• Onsite tour/training courses at other GFT offices and client’s destination overseas (where applicable).