Head of Cloud & Platform Engineering

Synapxe; Málaga; Presencial; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Synapxe is seeking a Director, Cloud & Infrastructure (Operations & Build) to own the end-to-end strategy, engineering and operations of enterprise cloud platforms within a highly regulated environment. You will align platform build with service operations to deliver secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure and set the direction for AIOps adoption and cost containment.

You will define technology leadership, drive cloud modernisation, standard patterns and automation, and ensure high

Formación

• 10+ years’ experience in cloud and/or infrastructure.
• Leadership of platform, SRE or infrastructure teams in large-scale environments.
• Experience delivering enterprise cloud platforms, landing zones and transformation initiatives.
• Strong background in regulated or public-sector environments with audit and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated experience driving infrastructure operationalisation, service transformation and enterprise-scale optimisation initiatives.

Responsabilidades

• Define and execute the cloud and infrastructure strategy, roadmap and operating model aligned to business demand and NFRs
• Define technology direction and lead the implementation and operationalisation of cloud and infrastructure platforms across the enterprise
• Establish service catalogues and reusable platform patterns for workload design and adoption
• Drive cloud adoption, platform standardisation and large-scale migration initiatives
• Set strategic direction for AIOps capabilities, operational automation and intelligent observability practices
• Drive cost containment and value realisation initiatives across infrastructure and cloud investments
• Lead delivery of cloud landing zones, hybrid hosting platforms and foundational infrastructure
• Implement self-service provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and policy-as-code
• Define engineering standards, reusable modules and platform guardrails
• Enable workload placement and scaling using standard patterns and demand forecasts
• Own service reliability and SLOs for cloud and infrastructure platforms
• Lead incident, problem and post-incident improvement for mission-critical services
• Drive observability, monitoring and continuous improvement practices
• Champion AIOps-driven service optimisation and operational efficiency improvements
• Oversee ITSM practices including runbooks, SLAs/OLAs and change management
• Enforce readiness gates, including authority to stop deployments lacking operational or resilience readiness
• Ensure disaster recovery, backup and business continuity readiness with audit evidence
• Embed security, compliance, privacy and data residency requirements by design
• Manage capacity and performance to meet demand and service targets
• Drive FinOps practices, including cost governance, tagging and optimization
• Develop and implement cost optimisation and consumption management strategies across cloud and infrastructure environments
• Oversee vendors and managed service providers against SLAs, security and compliance requirements
• Lead and develop high-performing teams across engineering and operations
• Build cloud, platform engineering and SRE capabilities through standards, coaching and enablement
• Foster a culture of accountability, automation and continuous improvement

Conocimientos

Leadership

Cloud strategy

Infrastructure operations

SRE practices

AIOps

FinOps awareness

Cost optimisation

Vendor management

Compliance and audit

Herramientas

IaC

Descripción del empleo

Synapxe is seeking a Director, Cloud & Infrastructure (Operations & Build) to own the end-to-end strategy, engineering and operations of enterprise cloud platforms within a highly regulated environment. You will align platform build with service operations to deliver secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure and set the direction for AIOps adoption and cost containment.

You will define technology leadership, drive cloud modernisation, standard patterns and automation, and ensure high