Field CTO & Regional Deployment Lead

PhysicsX Ltd.; North Tyneside; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PhysicsX Ltd. is seeking a Field CTO / Deployment Engineering leader to drive end-to-end deployments of our Kubernetes-based platform into customer IT environments.

You will engage CIOs/CTOs, shape deployment strategies, and lead regional teams while collaborating with cross-functional delivery groups to align technical and commercial objectives. The role blends executive leadership with hands-on software and infrastructure work in a hybrid UK setting, requiring strong communication, risk

Qualifications

• Track record of leading technical teams delivering complex infrastructure or platform deployments into enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure to lead technical conversations with teams and customer leadership.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Crossplane, Terraform, Helm) and the OCI ecosystem.
• Experience navigating enterprise IT organisations: security reviews, procurement processes, and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven ability to build relationships with senior technical executives (CTO, CIO, VP Engineering).
• Experience hiring and growing technical teams.
• Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites regionally and internationally as needed.
• Experience in regulated or high-security environments is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Executive engagement with customer CIOs/CTOs to scope deployments and build trusted relationships.
• Deployment oversight across accounts, identifying blockers and ensuring successful outcomes.
• Cross-functional alignment with delivery leads to keep commercial commitments aligned with deployment realities.
• Team building: recruit, onboard and develop deployment engineers; define scalable processes.
• Hands-on involvement in complex deployments needing senior technical judgement.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud infrastructure

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Security and compliance

Infra as code

Crossplane

Terraform

Helm

OpenStack

RHOS

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

OpenStack

RHOS

Crossplane

Terraform

Helm

Job description

PhysicsX Ltd. is seeking a Field CTO / Deployment Engineering leader to drive end-to-end deployments of our Kubernetes-based platform into customer IT environments.

You will engage CIOs/CTOs, shape deployment strategies, and lead regional teams while collaborating with cross-functional delivery groups to align technical and commercial objectives. The role blends executive leadership with hands-on software and infrastructure work in a hybrid UK setting, requiring strong communication, risk