Global Platform Engineering Leader (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

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.