Paymentology

Head of Platform Engineering

Paymentology

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇨🇾 Cyprus

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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 and instil a DevOps culture of ownership, automation, and continuous improvement
  • Oversee cloud infrastructure (AWS & GCP), Kubernetes platforms, and global networking; drive automation-first practices (IaC, GitOps, immutable deployments)
  • Establish and monitor SLOs, SLIs, SLAs; lead incident management, blameless postmortems, and resilience engineering
  • Own FinOps and cloud operations; 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, deployment tooling, and embed security/compliance checks
  • Partner with Security Engineering to embed zero-trust, modern IAM, secrets management, certificate lifecycle automation, and ensure PCI DSS/GDPR compliance
  • 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), 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 (PCI DSS, GDPR mentioned in role)
  • 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