Head of Cloud Platform Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the component-level architecture for Flui's AWS cloud portfolio, utilizing both AWS-native services and open-source/self-managed components.

• Manage and continuously enhance the platforms that support MarketFlow, MeterFlow, and the DCC adapter.

• Hold direct responsibility for ensuring resilience, performance, and scalability for national-scale transaction volumes.

• Develop and uphold disaster recovery, high-availability, and capacity planning strategies.

• Oversee FinOps, which includes cost visibility, forecasting, tagging, allocation, and ongoing cost optimization.

• Manage the cloud security posture, focusing on IAM, network security, encryption, and vulnerability and patch management.

• Ensure compliance with Flui's ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS and broader compliance requirements.

• Define and uphold non-functional standards related to resilience, performance, scalability, and observability.

• Design, construct, and personally implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and platform tooling.

• Take charge of incident management, on-call practices, root-cause analysis, and the continual enhancement of SRE methodologies.

• Make informed decisions between build-vs-buy and AWS-native-vs-open-source options.

• Manage essential vendor and technical relationships, including those with AWS and platform-tooling providers.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership on cloud architecture, planning, and time-to-market strategies.

• Recruit and nurture a small platform engineering team.

• Promote knowledge sharing, document architectural decisions and standards, facilitate internal sessions, and mentor engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience managing cloud platforms in a regulated, high-availability, or critical-infrastructure environment.

• Extensive, hands-on expertise in AWS, covering compute, storage, networking, data, and security services.

• Demonstrated experience in designing and operating cloud-native platforms that integrate AWS-native services with open-source components like Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Prometheus/Grafana, or similar tools.

• A successful track record in managing a FinOps practice and achieving measurable, sustained cloud cost reductions.

• Strong background in cloud security, particularly in IAM, encryption, and vulnerability management.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27001.

• Experience in defining and achieving non-functional requirements, including high availability, disaster recovery, performance/load testing, and scalability at production levels.

• Proficient in infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.

• Well-versed in mature CI/CD practices.

• Comfortable with hands-on daily operations while overseeing strategy, standards, and team development.

• Proven history of knowledge sharing and enhancing technical capabilities through documentation, mentoring, or internal training initiatives.

• Willing to participate in on-call/incident response as required.

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is advantageous, or equivalent practical experience.

• Current AWS certification(s) are highly preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Regular worker type

• 37.5 scheduled weekly hours