Head of Infrastructure Engineering

Spendesk, Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company is seeking an Infrastructure Team Lead to oversee and innovate infrastructure processes. The ideal candidate will have experience in cloud platforms, strong leadership skills, and a passion for AI technologies. You will manage a team, ensuring operational excellence while collaborating with engineering squads to enhance the developer experience. Join a dynamic team that values empowerment and growth, and enjoy a range of benefits including wellness allowances and flexible remote work options.

Benefits

Remote Work Flexibility

Wellness Allowance

Pension Scheme

28 Days of Holidays

Latest Apple Mac Equipment

Private Health Insurance

Private Dental Care

Qualifications

• Expert in modern infrastructure technology for high-availability cloud platforms.
• Experience managing and growing a distributed engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure engineers to drive innovation in infrastructure processes.
• Manage budget and resources for infrastructure projects.
• Oversee incident response efforts and ensure SLAs/SLOs are met.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Thinking

Problem Solving

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

NodeJS

Job description

The Infrastructure team is responsible for operating, maintaining and continuously improving our scalable, robust, secure and performant platform to support both our growing customer base and our engineering organization. Our aim is to enable and empower engineers to self-serve and deliver value to our customers in a fast, safe, and autonomous manner. This role leads the team of infrastructure engineers, to drive innovation in infrastructure processes, focused on operational excellence. This is a role that should lead how we can use AI technology to improve speed and the developer experience.

What you'll do

• Technical Delivery:
• Develop and implement infrastructure strategies and solutions, including networks, cloud services, databases, and storage systems, ensuring systems are scalable, secure and compliant, efficient, and performant.
• From planning and discovery, through to delivery and support - utilizing agile processes and practices. The Infrastructure team has its own ambitious roadmap, but we also collaborate closely with Engineering squads to deliver complex transversal initiatives, and look at how we can constantly improve the developer experience.

• Operational Excellence:
• Lead incident response efforts, overseeing the investigation and resolution of infrastructure-related issues, including following up of post-mortem actions and championing this across the business. This person is the lead for our engineering on-call process we have in place across our company.
• Manage budget and resources for infrastructure projects and operational environments, ensuring efficient utilization while staying within budget constraints and leading our cloud cost optimization strategy.
• Ensuring the Platform is available for both customers and engineers, SLAs/SLOs are met, as well as identifying bottlenecks which might impede scaling in the future. This will include implementation of disaster recovery projects.

• People:
• Management and growth of engineers – through 1:1s, performance reviews and objectives, it is important for all that we are able to deliver work of a high standard, in a sustainable manner, and engineers are able to learn, develop and grow their skills and career.
• Collaborate closely with other engineering teams, product managers, and business leaders to align infrastructure capabilities with business needs and growth.

What we're looking for

• Technical Experience
• An expert in modern infrastructure technology with experience in high-availability cloud platforms for SAAS companies.
• Experience with our specific tech stack is preferred.
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks like GDPR, ISO27k etc.
• An advocate for AI technologies and constantly stays up to date with modern technologies.
• Solid understanding of networking, storage, security, containerization and orchestration
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools (CI/CD, automation), and creation of developer golden paths.

• Leadership Experience
• Track record resource planning and roadmap creating experience
• Experience managing and growing a distributed engineering team

• Professional Attributes
• Strategic thinking and execution ability, with a strong work ethic and attention to detail.
• Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Pragmatic mindset; able to balance technical correctness with business priorities
• Takes initiative, identifies problems, and proactively proposes solutions, and is comfortable making key decisions.
• Powerful collaborator who works well across departments.

Our stack

• AWS as our cloud compute platform
• Kubernetes (EKS) for container runtime and orchestration
• RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Kafka, Redis
• Terraform for infrastructure as code
• Lambda and Step Functions
• Datadog for Observability
• Github actions for CICD
• Frontend is React
• Backend services are developed in NodeJS (TypeScript)

As we are an international team, please submit your application and CV in English.

About Spendesk

Spendesk is the 7-in-1 spending solution built for finance teams to make faster, smarter spending decisions. Founded in 2016, Spendesk is now one of the fastest-growing fintechs in Europe, with over 4,000 customers and an international team of 300+ employees based in Paris, Berlin, London, Hamburg, and a few in remote. We’ve raised over €260M from leading investors, and been named a French tech unicorn. And we’re not stopping there!

About our people & culture

We believe that people do their best work when they’re given the freedom to thrive and grow. That’s why liberation is at the core of everything we do. We empower Spendeskers to take ownership of their work, to navigate ambiguity, and seize every opportunity.Spendeskers come from all over the world (35+ countries and counting!) but we have plenty in common: we're bold, ever-curious, committed to kindness, and tackle every challenge with a positive mindset.

About our benefits

Our culture is built on trust, empowerment, and growth — with benefits to match!

- 4 days per month remote (non-accumulative) and 3 full weeks remote per year (non-consecutive)-

-Fully covered Oyster card for traveling to and from our new office (up to £250 monthly depending on location)

-£45 monthly wellness allowance, accruable, to be used on whatever wellness means to you - through the Ben platform

- Access to Moka.care for emotional and mental health wellbeing

- Pension scheme (on salary sacrifice): 5% employee / 5% employer (by Aviva)

- 28 days of holidays

- Latest Apple Mac equipment

- Company virtual events

- Visit our other offices: Paris, Berlin & Hamburg

- Great office snacks to fuel your day

- A positive team to work with daily!

- Vitality private health insurance (for you and your family/partner)

- Bupa private dental care

Diversity & Inclusion

At Spendesk, we're committed to fostering an environment where all differences are encouraged, supported and celebrated. We're building our culture for everyone, with everyone. Our goal is to attract and build a diverse, equal and inclusive team, where everyone feels welcome and we truly embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.