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 environment.

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

• Oversee disaster recovery plans, high-availability strategies, and capacity planning.

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

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

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

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

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

• Manage incident response, on-call practices, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement of SRE methodologies.

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

• Oversee AWS and other vendor relationships and technical partnerships.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership on cloud architecture and roadmap strategy.

• Recruit and nurture a platform engineering team.

• Document architectural decisions, conduct internal cloud and platform sessions, and mentor engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Established experience in designing and managing cloud-native platforms that integrate AWS-native services with open-source tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Prometheus/Grafana, or their equivalents.

• A solid track record in overseeing a FinOps practice and achieving consistent cloud cost reductions.

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

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

• Experience in defining and fulfilling 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-developed CI/CD practices.

• Experience in knowledge sharing and enhancing technical capabilities through documentation, mentoring, or internal training.

• Willingness to engage in on-call/incident response as necessary.

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

• Current AWS certification(s) are highly preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time regular employment.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Disability accommodation available during the application process.