Global Platform Lead (DevOps) – Scale High‑Throughput Systems

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

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.