Head of Platform

A high-growth technology organisation is looking for a seasoned engineering leader to take ownership of its platform and infrastructure engineering function . This role sits at the intersection of architecture, operations, and team leadership — shaping how the engineering platform supports business scale, reliability and innovation.

What You’ll Do

• Own the technical vision and roadmap for the organisation’s platform engineering and infrastructure capabilities.
• Lead a team responsible for platform services, infrastructure, SRE/DevOps practices, CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability.
• Ensure the platform is scalable, secure, performant and aligned to business needs; drive key metrics (SLAs, SLOs, system availability).
• Bridge the gap between product development teams and operational excellence — you’ll be both strategic and hands‑on.
• Architect, review and influence infrastructure decisions, cloud, containerisation, Kubernetes, multi‑region, high‑scale systems.
• Drive improvements in developer experience, tooling, automation, observability, incident response and technical debt management.
• Partner with senior stakeholders (CTO, product leads, business heads) to align engineering strategy with commercial goals.
• Mentor and develop engineering managers and senior engineers, building a high‑performance, resilient team culture.

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive software/engineering leadership experience with significant responsibility for platform, infrastructure or SRE teams.
• Demonstrated track record architecting and operating large‑scale cloud infrastructure and platform services (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform/IaC, etc.).
• Experience with the backend using Golang.
• Strong ability to navigate technical decisions, trade‑offs, and implement practical solutions in complex environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills — able to translate technical challenges into business impact.
• Hands‑on mindset with a willingness to “get your hands dirty” as needed; you don’t just manage, you lead by example.
• Experience in mentoring and building high‑performing teams, creating a culture of excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Why Accept This Role?

• High‑visibility leadership opportunity where your operational and strategic decisions directly influence business growth and platform performance.
• Scope to build and refine the engineering platform as a foundation for future innovation, scale and reliability.
• Flexible working model (remote/hybrid) plus the chance to work across engineering, product and business functions.
• Join a forward‑thinking organisation that values bold technical leadership, practical execution and measurable results.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Technology, Information and Media

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