Head of Infrastructure Engineering

Revolut; United Arab Emirates; Remote; AED 600.000 - 800.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Revolut is seeking a Head of Infrastructure Engineering to drive operational excellence, reliability, and scalability across a global hybrid architecture. You’ll own global infrastructure strategy, lead platform and SRE teams, and shape automation through IaC and GitOps.

The role requires executive-level collaboration with Engineering, Security, Product, and Finance leaders. We value experience delivering scalable, high-availability systems across regions, strong cost control, and a track record

Qualifikationen

• Extensive leadership experience in infrastructure, platform, cloud, production, or SRE teams.
• Experience with multi-region infrastructure expansion.
• Proven ability to design secure, scalable hybrid cloud architectures.
• Strong budget, vendor management and cost-control skills.
• Excellent communication with executive and engineering teams.

Aufgaben

• Own global infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, and SRE strategy.
• Design secure, scalable hybrid architecture across cloud and on-prem.
• Lead infrastructure expansion into new regions with repeatable deployment models.
• Drive IaC, GitOps, CI/CD, and self-service platforms.
• Ensure reliability, performance, capacity, security, and cost efficiency.
• Build and lead infrastructure, platform, and SRE teams.
• Review designs and guide incidents; partner with engineering, security, product, and finance leaders.

Kenntnisse

Infrastructure leadership

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

CI/CD & GitOps

SRE practices & incident mgmt

Observability (monitoring/logging/trac

Budget & vendor management

Executive communication

Tools

GitOps tooling

Jobbeschreibung

About Revolut

People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 80+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth, 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 13,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.

About The Role

Our Technology team builds the systems and experiences that keep Revolut moving. From the infrastructure behind our innovative app to the features used by millions of people around the world, they bring sharp thinking, speed, and a focus on meaningful impact to everything they do. We’re looking for a Head of Infrastructure Engineering to drive operational excellence, reliability, and scalability.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Owning the global infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, and SRE strategy
• Designing and evolving a secure, scalable hybrid architecture across cloud and on-premises
• Leading infrastructure expansion into new regions with repeatable deployment models
• Driving automation through IaC, GitOps, CI/CD, and self-service platforms
• Owning reliability, performance, capacity, security, compliance, and cost efficiency
• Building and leading infrastructure, platform, and SRE teams
• Staying close to implementation by reviewing designs, challenging decisions, and guiding incidents
• Partnering with Engineering, Security, Product, and Finance team leaders on infrastructure investment

What You’ll Need

• Significant experience leading infrastructure, platform, cloud, production, or SRE teams, owning business-critical infrastructure at scale
• Expertise with AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Solid CI/CD and GitOps experience
• Demonstrated SRE practice with SLOs, error budgets, incident management, postmortems, and capacity planning
• Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability platforms
• Familiarity with high-availability and disaster-recovery design
• A track record leading infrastructure expansion across multiple regions
• Experience managing vendors, budgets, and infrastructure costs
• To be comfortable operating at both executive and detailed engineering levels

Nice to have

• Knowledge of hybrid cloud and on-premises
• Compliance familiarity (ISO 27001, SOC 2)
• Experience with large-scale cloud providers

Building a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our Revoluters are a priority, and that’s why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow everyday. We’re not just doing this because it’s the right thing to do. We’re doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. That’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard-working team.