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 of Flui's AWS cloud infrastructure, incorporating AWS-native services as well as open-source and self-managed components.

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

• Be accountable for platform resilience, performance, and scalability to handle national-scale transaction volumes.

• Design and oversee disaster recovery, high-availability, and capacity planning.

• Lead FinOps initiatives, ensuring cost visibility, forecasting, tagging, allocation, and cost optimization.

• Take charge of cloud security posture, which includes IAM, network security, encryption, and vulnerability and patch management.

• Ensure that the cloud infrastructure complies with Flui's ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS and other regulatory obligations.

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

• Design, construct, and, when necessary, implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and platform tools.

• Manage incident responses, on-call practices, root-cause analyses, and the ongoing improvement of SRE practices.

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

• Oversee key vendor and technical partnerships, including those with AWS and platform tooling providers.

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

• Recruit and nurture a small platform engineering team.

• Promote knowledge sharing, technical education, architecture documentation, internal cloud sessions, and mentoring.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience managing cloud platforms for regulated, high-availability, or critical-infrastructure businesses.

• In-depth, practical AWS expertise including 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 such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, and Prometheus/Grafana or similar tools.

• A history of leading 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, including ISO/IEC 27001.

• Experience in defining and meeting non-functional requirements such as high availability, disaster recovery, performance/load testing, and production-scale scalability.

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

• Established CI/CD practices.

• Comfortable with hands-on operations while also managing strategy, standards, and team development.

• Proven track record of sharing knowledge and enhancing technical skills through documentation, mentoring, or internal training.

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

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

• Current AWS certifications are highly sought after.

🏝️ Benefits

• Regular worker type.

• 37.5 scheduled weekly hours.

• Accommodation available for individuals with disabilities at any stage of the application process.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.