Head of SRE – Infrastructure

Capital.com

Head of SRE and Infrastructure at a leading trading platform expanding globally. Responsible for shaping reliability, scalability, and resilience of infrastructure across teams.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeWarsaw • 🇵🇱 PolandLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop and execute the SRE and infrastructure strategy to support the organisation’s technology roadmap, product growth, and global expansion.
Lead the continued evolution of existing DevOps and infrastructure capabilities into a mature SRE framework with documented SLOs, error budgets, and operating standards adopted across every engineering tribe.
Oversee the design, automation, and optimisation of our cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Helm, infrastructure-as-code).
Drive the migration of remaining on-premise workloads into the cloud and the build-out of a multi-cloud disaster recovery footprint with backup on on-premise servers.
Own the GitOps platform end-to-end.
Consolidate the existing FluxCD estate, evaluate and execute the move to ArgoCD with progressive / canary delivery, and ensure secrets, image signing, environment promotion, and policy enforcement are uniform across all tribes.
Build and maintain a reliable, scalable platform for regulated, multi-jurisdiction trading.
Define and enforce reliability standards (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets).
Own the firm-wide disaster recovery strategy, including recovery-site selection, RTO/RPO targets per service tier, regular DR drills with business and risk stakeholders, and the playbooks that turn DR from theory into a tested capability.
Define and operate a single observability standard (metrics, logs, traces) that every engineering team consumes - including SLO instrumentation, golden signals, alerting hygiene, and on-call ergonomics.
Work closely with incident, problem management, engineering, and operations teams to improve incident response, post-incident analysis, and long-term prevention with clear escalation criteria.
Lead, hire, and develop SRE, DevOps, DBA, developer experience and technical support teams.
Partner with development, security, compliance, risk, release, and business teams to ensure infrastructure and reliability priorities are aligned with product delivery, client experience, and regulatory obligations across all our operating jurisdictions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated experience as a Head of SRE, SRE Director, Infrastructure Director, Engineering Director, or similar senior leadership role in a major technology, fintech, or financial services company, or equivalent experience with high-load platform environments (low latency, high throughput, in-memory systems).
A strong background in SRE, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, cloud platforms, and operating complex, high-availability systems.
Hands-on technical understanding of modern infrastructure technologies, including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, FluxCD/ArgoCD, CI/CD tools, monitoring and alerting systems, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Deep understanding of SRE principles, including SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, error budgets, incident management, observability, automation, and resilience engineering.
Experience as a manager of managers, with the ability to inspire people and hold them to account in equal measure, and in hiring, mentoring, performance management, and building strong engineering culture.
A proven ability to work collaboratively with various teams and to adeptly discuss technical details with engineering teams as well as translate these details into actionable language for non-technical stakeholders.
Strong analytical skills and the ability to use metrics and analytics to guide technical decisions and improvements.
A pragmatic approach and the ability to prioritize outcomes over process when necessary to drive effective and actionable results.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Salary: We believe great work deserves great pay! Your skills and talents will be rewarded with a salary that makes you feel valued and motivated.
Work-Life Harmony: Join a company that genuinely cares about you - because your life outside of work matters just as much as your time on the clock. #LI-Hybrid
Generous Time Off: Need a breather? Our annual leave policy lets you recharge and enjoy life outside of work without a worry.
Employee Referral Program: Love working here? Share the love! Bring your talented friends on board and get rewarded for growing our awesome team.
Comprehensive Health & Pension Benefits: From medical insurance to pension plans, we’ve got your back. Plus, location-specific benefits and perks!
Workation Wonderland: Live your digital nomad dreams with 30 extra days to work remotely from anywhere in the world (some restrictions apply). Adventure awaits!
Volunteer Days: Make a difference! Take two additional paid days each year to support causes you care about and give back to the community.

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Hard Skills & Tools

SREDevOpsinfrastructure engineeringcloud platformshigh-availability systemsinfrastructure-as-codeautomationobservabilityincident managementresilience engineering

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringperformance managementcollaborationanalytical skillscommunicationprioritizationinspirationaccountabilitybuilding engineering culture