Global Head of Platforms (DevOps)

Xact Placements Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic cybersecurity company is seeking a Global Head of Platforms (DevOps) to lead the strategy and execution of a world-class platform infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in building engineering teams across multiple regions and a strong technical foundation in cloud technologies like AWS and Azure. This role offers the opportunity to impact a fast-growing industry and work with elite engineering talent.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

High-ownership leadership role

Elite engineering environment

Qualifications

• 10+ years building distributed engineering teams.
• Experience leading other leaders in fast-paced environments.
• Strong technical background in AWS and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global Platform Engineering organization.
• Architect and scale a distributed data-processing platform.
• Drive DevOps maturity across services.

Skills

Building distributed engineering teams

Leading leaders

Scaling high-throughput distributed systems

B2B SaaS experience

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Python

Node.js

Golang

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS CodeBuild

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

🌍 Global Head of Platforms (DevOps)

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.