Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year Requirements: 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 Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization, CI/CD tooling, pipeline design, and modern deployment strategies. Demonstrated capability to modernize 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. 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, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and platform operations. Drive best practices in automation, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, 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 optimization 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. Technologies: AWS Azure CI/CD Cloud DevOps GCP Security More: We are a global technology organization supporting a large portfolio of software partners. We operate a multi-cloud, highly distributed platform and are committed to investing significantly in engineering transformation. In this role, you will lead the Cloud, DevOps, and Platform Engineering strategy for a high-availability payments platform operating across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will have the opportunity to modernize infrastructure, tooling, and engineering practices while working with experienced leaders across engineering, product, and architecture. Join us to lead the DevOps and Cloud strategy for our mission-critical payments platform, where you will have high influence, autonomy, and a key role in shaping our future engineering culture. We offer a competitive salary, bonus, and benefits package. If you believe you meet the criteria for this role and are excited about shaping DevOps strategy for a global technology platform, we encourage you to apply! last updated 5 week of 2026