Platform Engineering Lead: Azure/AKS for FinTech AI

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex collaborates with a trusted partner company to build enterprise AI systems for global financial institutions. You will be the first platform leader, defining cloud strategy, owning architecture, and scaling the Azure/AKS environment.

You will build the platform team from scratch and drive security, governance, and production readiness. Lead CI/CD, observability, on-call rotations, and incident response while guiding audits for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Deep experience with production Kubernetes and Terraform at scale.
• Proven track record building and scaling platform teams in startups.
• End-to-end ownership from architecture to production support and on-call.
• Security/compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive end-to-end cloud strategy for Azure/AKS deployments.
• Build and lead the platform engineering team from the ground up.
• Own CI/CD across backend, frontend, and data with observability and incident response.
• Lead SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits, implementing robust security controls.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure

Python

Bash

Platform leadership

CI/CD

Security & compliance

Tools

AKS

PostgreSQL

MySQL

NoSQL

Job description

Dex collaborates with a trusted partner company to build enterprise AI systems for global financial institutions. You will be the first platform leader, defining cloud strategy, owning architecture, and scaling the Azure/AKS environment.

You will build the platform team from scratch and drive security, governance, and production readiness. Lead CI/CD, observability, on-call rotations, and incident response while guiding audits for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR.