Global Head of Platforms (DevOps)

Xact Placements; Remote; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity innovator in the United Kingdom seeks a Global Head of Platforms to lead their Platform Engineering organization. This role involves architecting scalable infrastructure, driving DevOps maturity, and managing cloud strategies across AWS and Azure. Candidates should have over 10 years of experience in distributed engineering, with a proven track record in B2B SaaS environments. This is a high-impact leadership position offering competitive compensation and growth opportunities in a fast-paced, innovative setting.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

High-ownership leadership role

Elite engineering environment

Serious growth trajectory

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and leading distributed engineering teams.
• Proven success scaling high-throughput distributed systems in production.
• Strong background in early-stage B2B SaaS.
• Deep technical expertise in AWS and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and structure a multi-region Platform Engineering organisation.
• Architect and scale a distributed scanning & data-processing platform.
• Drive DevOps maturity across services.
• Define and evolve platform architecture.

Skills

Distributed engineering leadership

Cloud expertise (AWS, Azure)

IaC (Terraform, Ansible)

Kubernetes

Observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana)

Networking fundamentals

Development pipelines (GitHub Actions)

Tools

Docker

AWS CodeBuild

MySQL

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Job description

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Location : UK (Global Scope)

High-Growth Cybersecurity Scale-Up | Elite Engineering Leadership | Global Impact

We’re partnering with one of the most exciting, fast-scaling cybersecurity innovators in the market currently. A research-driven, venture-backed scale-up protecting some of the world’s largest enterprises and critical infrastructure providers.

Our client is building bleeding-edge technology that helps organisations understand exactly how they could be compromised — in real time. They think like attackers, innovate like researchers, and execute like high-performance engineers. Now, they’re looking for a standout leader to shape and scale their global platform capability.

🔥 The Role : Global Head of Platforms (DevOps)

This is a career-defining, global technology leadership role. You’ll own platform strategy, drive infrastructure evolution, and lead a world-class Platform Engineering organisation across multiple regions. You’ll be the force behind a secure, resilient, and ultra high-throughput distributed platform that supports enterprise customers around the world.

If you want impact, autonomy, and the chance to build at true global scale, this is it.

💼 What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead, grow, and structure a multi-region Platform Engineering organisation.
• Architect and scale a distributed scanning & data-processing platform powering thousands of global workloads.
• Drive DevOps maturity — improving deployment speed, change failure rates, and time-to-recovery across all services.
• Own cloud and infrastructure strategy across AWS / Azure with a focus on security, performance, cost, and global regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Product, Security, and Engineering to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable capabilities.
• Define and evolve platform architecture across networking, observability, storage, workflow orchestration, and multi / hybrid-cloud.
• Champion engineering best practice : IaC, automated testing, secure-by-default, documentation excellence.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, reliability, and operational excellence.

🎯 What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years building and leading distributed engineering teams across multiple regions.
• Experience leading leaders — not just individual contributors.
• Proven success scaling high-throughput distributed systems in production.
• Strong background in early-stage B2B SaaS (ideally cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or offensive security tools).
• Deep technical expertise across :
• Cloud : AWS, Azure
• IaC : Terraform, Ansible
• Platforms : Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, Docker, Lambda, Airflow
• Observability : EFK, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger / OpenTelemetry
• Persistence : MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka
• Pipelines : GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild
• Runtimes : Python, Node.js, Golang
• Strong networking fundamentals, especially OSI layer 3+ and distributed performance optimisation.
• Experience operating global / multi-region cloud infrastructure, navigating cost, risk, and data sovereignty.
• Comfort working with senior business stakeholders in fast-scaling environments.
• Track record developing high-performing, high-ownership engineering teams.

💰 Why This Should Be Your Next Move

• Competitive compensation befitting a role of this scope and impact.
• High-ownership leadership role in a company solving real, industry-wide cybersecurity challenges.
• Elite engineering environment where you’ll work with researchers, operators, and world-leading security talent.
• Serious growth trajectory — join early, grow with the organisation, and shape the future of the platform function.
• Cutting-edge problems few companies in the world are capable of solving.

If you’re a strategic, deeply technical platform leader ready to build global-scale infrastructure for one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity innovators — we’d love to talk.

Ready to explore it? Reach out today.