Alpaca

Director, Platform and Infrastructure

Alpaca

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇪🇺 Anywhere in Europe

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudKubernetesNode.jsPostgresSpark

About the role

  • Escalation point on the Engineering side for high-severity incidents
  • Monitor and optimize cloud spend and infrastructure costs, and manage vendor relationships
  • Continuously scale and improve common infrastructure elements and platform services
  • Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams responsible for cloud infrastructure, DevOps, site reliability and technical operations
  • Oversee availability, capacity planning, and disaster recovery to ensure systems are resilient and fault-tolerant
  • Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements across infrastructure and operations
  • Establish and monitor KPIs/SLAs for platform reliability, security, and performance
  • Provide thought leadership on infrastructure strategy while being willing to dive deep into technical challenges when needed
  • Improve developer experience through better tooling, workflows, and internal platforms that accelerate productivity and reduce friction
  • Collaborate closely with product engineering teams, security, broker-dealer operations, and report directly to the CTO

Requirements

  • 5 years of experience in a similar leadership role in engineering
  • Strong ability to work independently, lead and deliver on large tasks, and collaborate with other members of the organization or external partners
  • Production experience with Kubernetes, Postgres, event brokers and any of the major cloud providers’ platform services
  • Proven track record of building and scaling infrastructure in cloud-native, high-growth environments (preferably in fintech, brokerage, or other regulated industries)
  • Strong background in system design, observability, and incident response at scale
  • Experience with event-driven architecture, security best practices, compliance frameworks, and regulatory environments relevant to financial services
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Ability to balance long-term strategy with hands-on technical problem solving