Platform Engineering Lead – Cloud, Azure & Compliance

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex partners with leading financial institutions to build enterprise AI platforms. This role is the first platform leader, defining the cloud strategy, owning the Azure/AKS environment, and building the team from scratch.

You will own CI/CD across services, establish observability and on‑call rotations, and guide audits for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR, enabling secure production systems handling sensitive data.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Deep experience with production Kubernetes and Terraform at scale.
• Proven track record building and leading platform teams in fast-growth startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive cloud strategy, architecting and scaling the Azure/AKS environment for financial deployments.
• Build and lead the platform engineering team from the ground up, setting the technical bar and culture.
• Own CI/CD across all services (backend, frontend, data), establishing product-wide observability, on-call rotations, and incident response.
• Lead the company through SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits, implementing robust security, secrets management, and GDPR compliance.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Platform engineering

Azure

PostgreSQL

MySQL

NoSQL

Python

Tools

AKS

Job description

Dex partners with leading financial institutions to build enterprise AI platforms. This role is the first platform leader, defining the cloud strategy, owning the Azure/AKS environment, and building the team from scratch.

You will own CI/CD across services, establish observability and on‑call rotations, and guide audits for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR, enabling secure production systems handling sensitive data.