Platform Director
Head of DevOps
Excellent opportunity opens to join a high growth Fintech as their new Head of DevOps. You will lead the design, build, and scaling of a modern AWS cloud native infrastructure within a fast growing, technology led Fintech.
Leading a team of 5 highly skilled DevOps Engineers, you will own a key financial services platform that connects into major banks.
You will also play a critical role in enabling the delivery of scalable, resilient, and high performing platforms supporting real time, client facing applications, with full ownership of DevOps strategy and execution.
Main Responsibilities
- Define and execute the DevOps and platform engineering strategy
- Architect and manage scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP - preferred)
- Own and optimise CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient, low friction software delivery
- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation first principles
- Establish best practices across monitoring, observability, and system reliability
- Partner closely with Engineering and Product teams to accelerate delivery and improve performance
- Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Build, mentor, and scale a high performing DevOps team
- Oversee cloud cost optimisation and resource efficiency
Qualifications
- Proven experience leading DevOps/Platform Engineering teams in complex environments
- Strong expertise in cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and reliability engineering
- Experience operating in regulated or high-compliance environments (preferred)
- Excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Any experience across DevSecOps