About the Company
Our client is a global technology organisation supporting a large portfolio of software partners. They operate a multi‑cloud, highly distributed platform and are investing significantly in engineering transformation.
The Role
As Director / VP of DevOps, you will lead the Cloud, DevOps, and Platform Engineering strategy for a high‑availability payments platform operating across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will oversee teams responsible for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, developer tooling, observability, release reliability, and operational readiness. This is a senior technical leadership role that requires strategic direction‑setting, hands‑on technical understanding, and the ability to influence engineering behaviours at scale.
Key Responsibilities
* Define and implement the long‑term DevOps, Cloud and Platform Engineering strategy across multi‑cloud environments
* Lead and develop managers and senior engineers across DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE and platform operations
* Drive best practices in automation, infrastructure‑as‑code, containerisation and continuous delivery
* Oversee the evolution of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliability, speed and alignment with engineering needs
* Build high‑quality observability across the platform, improving insights around performance, stability and release health
* Partner closely with Test, Security and Engineering leadership to ensure robust, secure and compliant deployments
* Own cloud operational expenditure and create optimisation strategies for platform efficiency and resilience
* Champion engineering excellence through improved tooling, self‑service capabilities and streamlined developer workflows
* Provide clear reporting, KPIs and risk visibility to senior leadership and executive stakeholders
* Influence culture and ways of working by promoting automation‑first, reliability‑first thinking across engineering teams
Essential Criteria
* Proven leadership experience heading DevOps, SRE, Cloud or Platform Engineering teams at Director/VP level
* Strong understanding of cloud architecture across AWS, Azure or GCP, ideally within complex distributed systems
* Deep experience with IaC, containerisation, CI/CD tooling, pipeline design and modern deployment strategies
* Demonstrated capability to modernise engineering practices across multiple teams or business units
* Strong approach to observability covering logs, metrics, tracing, performance monitoring and incident response
* Excellent communication skills and an ability to partner with engineering, product, test and executive teams
* Experience managing budgets, operational expenditure and large‑scale cloud environments
* Background in payments, fintech, SaaS or similarly high‑availability domains is beneficial
Why Join
* Lead the DevOps and Cloud strategy for a global, mission‑critical payments platform
* Major opportunity to modernise infrastructure, tooling and engineering practices
* Work with highly experienced leaders across engineering, product and architecture
* Competitive salary, bonus and benefits package
* High influence, high autonomy and a key role in shaping future engineering culture
How to Apply
If you believe you meet the criteria for this role and are excited about shaping DevOps strategy for a global technology platform, please apply via this link. Alternatively, you can reach out to Phil Gamble directly for an informal chat via LinkedIn or WhatsApp.
Recruiter: Phil Gamble – experienced tech recruitment professional.
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