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Head of Platform Engineering

Albertbow — United Kingdom · Posted ~1 day ago

Head Full-time

Skills

Platform engineering Cloud infrastructure Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code CI/CD Cloud operations Reliability engineering Observability Performance engineering Security Engineering leadership Team management

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

Take a senior leadership role at a rapidly scaling technology organization and define the strategy for its platform engineering function. You will scale cloud infrastructure, lead a high-performing team, own Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code practices, strengthen CI/CD and cloud operations, and drive reliability, observability, security, and performance across engineering.

Highlights

Lead platform strategy and a high-performing engineering team while owning infrastructure, reliability, security, developer experience, Kubernetes, cloud operations, observability, and performance at a rapidly scaling organization.

Description

Head of Platform Engineering | AI Scale-Up | London Build the platform powering the future of AI. We're partnering with a rapidly growing, venture-backed AI company that's transforming how leading financial institutions leverage artificial intelligence. Following major recent investment and significant customer growth, they're looking for a Head of Platform Engineering to lead the next phase of platform maturity and scale. This is an opportunity to join an ambitious engineering organisation at a pivotal stage of growth and take ownership of the infrastructure, reliability, security, and developer experience that underpins the entire business. What You'll Be Doing Define and execute the Platform Engineering strategy Scale cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities Lead and grow a high-performing Platform Engineering team Own Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD and cloud operations Drive reliability, observability and performance across the engineering organisation Lead security, compliance and operational excellence initiatives Improve developer productivity and enable faster, safer deployments Partner closely with Engineering Leadership to shape the company's technical future Tech Environment AzureKubernetes (AKS)TerraformDockerCI/CD AutomationCloud Security & ComplianceObservability & Reliability Tooling What We're Looking For Experience leading Platform, Infrastructure, SRE or DevOps teamsStrong background in cloud-native environmentsDeep Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code expertiseProven experience scaling engineering organisationsStrong understanding of security, reliability and operational best practicesBuilder mindset with a passion for creating engineering platforms that accelerate teams Why Join? Fast-growing AI company with significant funding Genuine opportunity to shape engineering strategyHigh-calibre engineering team Build and scale a platform function with real ownership If you're excited by the opportunity to build world-class engineering foundations inside one of the most exciting AI businesses in the market, I'd love to speak with you. Apply directly or contact me for a confidential discussion.