Paymentology

Head of Platform Engineering

Paymentology

full-time

Posted on:

Origin:  • 🇷🇸 Serbia

Visit company website
✨ AI Apply
Apply

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 and provide self-service pipelines, test automation, and deployment tooling
  • Embed security and compliance checks directly into the CI/CD process
  • Champion a “paved road” developer experience that reduces friction and accelerates delivery
  • Partner with Security Engineering to embed zero-trust, IAM, TLS, secrets management, and certificate lifecycle 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)
  • Experience with Kubernetes platforms and distributed systems
  • Strong experience with CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and immutable deployments
  • Track record of driving automation and observability platforms
  • Strong SRE mindset with experience applying SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and resilience engineering
  • Experience leading incident management, blameless postmortems, and resilience initiatives
  • Experience with FinOps and cloud operations (cost-efficiency, right-sizing, forecasting cloud spend)
  • Security-first approach with experience embedding compliance into automated pipelines
  • Experience with zero-trust, modern IAM, end-to-end TLS, secrets management, and certificate lifecycle automation
  • Knowledge of PCI DSS, GDPR, and local regulations compliance
  • Strong leadership skills building high-performing, distributed engineering teams (global/remote-first preferred)
  • Payments knowledge is a plus but not essential
  • Experience operating always-on, mission-critical systems