Paymentology

Head of Platform Engineering

Paymentology

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇵🇱 Poland

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes

About the role

  • Define and execute long-term platform, networking, and SRE vision and roadmap
  • Build, lead, and mentor globally distributed platform engineering teams and instil a DevOps culture
  • 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 efforts
  • Own FinOps and cloud operations; partner with Finance and Product to forecast and optimise cloud spend
  • Own CI/CD ecosystem, provide self-service pipelines, test automation, and deployment tooling
  • Embed security and compliance checks into CI/CD; partner with Security Engineering on zero-trust and IAM
  • Lead global networking strategy to ensure secure, resilient, low-latency connectivity with automation and observability
  • Collaborate with product and business leaders and represent 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 and CI/CD
  • Expertise in networking and distributed systems
  • Track record of driving automation with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps
  • Experience with observability platforms and monitoring (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs)
  • Strong SRE mindset with experience applying SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and resilience engineering
  • Experience leading incident management, blameless postmortems, and resilience initiatives
  • Experience owning FinOps and cloud operations, cost optimisation and forecasting
  • Experience embedding security and compliance (PCI DSS, GDPR) into automated pipelines
  • Experience with zero-trust, IAM, secrets management, and certificate lifecycle automation
  • Strong leadership skills building and mentoring globally distributed engineering teams
  • Experience in a global or remote-first context preferred
  • Payments knowledge is a plus but not essential