Paymentology

Head of Platform Engineering

Paymentology

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇲🇹 Malta

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes

About the role

  • Define and execute the long-term platform, networking, and site reliability engineering vision and roadmap
  • Build, lead, and mentor globally distributed platform engineering teams
  • Instil a DevOps culture of ownership, automation, and continuous improvement
  • Oversee cloud infrastructure (AWS & GCP), Kubernetes platforms, and global networking
  • Drive automation-first practices, including infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and immutable deployments
  • Establish and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs to ensure reliability and performance
  • Lead incident management, blameless postmortems, and resilience engineering initiatives
  • Own FinOps and cloud operations, ensuring platforms are cost-efficient and financially accountable
  • Partner with Finance and Product to forecast cloud spend and optimise resource usage
  • Own the end-to-end CI/CD ecosystem, provide self-service pipelines, test automation, and deployment tooling
  • Embed security and compliance checks into CI/CD and partner with Security Engineering on zero-trust, IAM, TLS, secrets, and certificate automation
  • Ensure platform services and pipelines are compliant with PCI DSS, GDPR, and local regulations
  • Lead global networking strategy to ensure secure, resilient, low-latency connectivity with automation and observability
  • Collaborate with product and business leaders and represent the platform function with external partners, regulators, and customers

Requirements

  • Minimum 10 years of proven experience leading platform, SRE, or DevOps functions at scale in mission-critical environments
  • Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP)
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, networking, and distributed systems
  • Track record of driving automation with infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and observability platforms
  • Strong SRE mindset, with experience applying SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and resilience engineering
  • Security-first approach, with experience embedding compliance into automated pipelines
  • Strong leadership skills, with a record of building high-performing, distributed engineering teams, preferably in a global or remote-first context
  • Payments knowledge is a plus but not essential