Global Platform Lead - Fully Remote

Digital Saints | Start-up Talent Partner; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity scale-up is seeking a Global Head of Platforms (DevOps) to lead their platform engineering efforts fully remotely. This key role involves building scalable cloud operations, enhancing DevOps practices, and managing distributed teams. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in scaling platforms, strong technical skills in cloud technologies, and the ability to work with senior stakeholders effectively. This is a senior position at an innovative company with a global reach, offering significant responsibilities in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Equity options

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience in leading and managing diverse engineering teams in a distributed environment.
• Track record of developing scalable platforms in a B2B context.
• Background in cloud technologies and DevOps practices.
• Ability to communicate with senior management effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing Platform Engineering organization globally.
• Own the cloud and scanning platform for scalability.
• Drive DevOps maturity across services.
• Shape cloud strategy addressing performance and compliance.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to enhance customer capabilities.

Skills

Leadership of distributed engineering teams

Scaling high-throughput platforms

Cloud services expertise (AWS/Azure)

Experience with Kubernetes and Terraform

Strong networking knowledge

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

Global Platform Lead (DevOps) – Fully Remote – Cybersecurity Scale-Up

£100,000 base salary plus equity and benefits. Fully remote from the UK with a genuinely global remit across the US, UK and APAC.

I am partnering with an international (New York, Singapore) well-funded, analyst-recognised cyber security scale-up (nearly $30m raised) that helps large enterprises and critical infrastructure providers understand how they could be hacked in real time. Their platform blends threat intelligence, real attacker telemetry and automated red teaming to give security teams time to respond before attackers succeed.

The Role for Global Head of Platforms (DevOps) – Fully Remote – Cybersecurity Scale-Up

This is the senior owner of platform and DevOps, building the backbone that powers global exposure management for Fortune 500 and critical infrastructure clients. You will :

• Lead and grow a high-performing Platform Engineering organisation across regions
• Own and evolve the global cloud and distributed scanning platform for scale, resilience and speed
• Drive DevOps and SRE maturity (deploy frequency, stability, time to recover) across services
• Shape multi-region cloud strategy, balancing performance, cost, risk and regulatory demands
• Partner with Product, Security and Engineering leadership to ship secure, reliable customer-facing capabilities faster

The Person for Global Head of Platforms (DevOps) – Fully Remote – Cybersecurity Scale-Up

You are a seasoned platform and DevOps leader who enjoys both strategy and technical depth. Ideally you have :

• Excellent experience building and leading distributed engineering teams, including managing regional leads
• A track record of scaling high-throughput, distributed platforms in production, ideally in cyber or data-heavy products
• Experience in early-stage or high-growth B2B startups serving enterprise customers
• Strong background across cloud (AWS / Azure), Kubernetes, Terraform / Ansible, CI / CD and observability
• Solid understanding of networking and multi-region cloud operations, including cost, resilience and data residency
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders to make pragmatic, commercial platform decisions
• Tech environment includes : AWS, Azure, Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, Terraform, Airflow, EFK / Prometheus / Grafana, MySQL / PostgreSQL / Redis / Elasticsearch / Kafka, GitHub Actions, plus services written in Python, Node.js and Go.