Head of Infrastructure Engineering

Revolut; España; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolut is seeking a Head of Infrastructure Engineering to drive operational excellence, reliability, and scalability across global systems. You will own the global infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, and SRE strategy, delivering secure and scalable architectures.

You will lead infra, platform, and SRE teams, review designs, guide incidents, and partner with Engineering, Security, Product and Finance to invest in infrastructure that supports rapid growth and exceptional

Qualifications

• Experience leading infrastructure at scale.
• Experience with cloud providers and multi-region expansion.
• Ability to operate at executive and engineering levels.

Responsibilities

• Own global infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, and SRE strategy.
• Design secure, scalable hybrid cloud and on-prem architectures.
• Lead regional expansion with repeatable deployment models.
• Drive IaC, GitOps, CI/CD, and self-service platforms.
• Own reliability, performance, capacity, security, and costs.
• Build and lead infrastructure, platform, and SRE teams.
• Review designs and guide incidents with engineers.
• Partner with Engineering, Security, Product, and Finance on infra investments.

Skills

infra leadership

cloud platforms

CI/CD

GitOps

SRE practices

observability

disaster recovery

vendor management

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

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.