Platform Engineering Leader: Azure, Scale & Security

Dex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dex is seeking a senior platform/infra leader to define the cloud strategy and build the team from scratch for a partner focused on enterprise AI in financial services. You will own the Azure/AKS architecture, drive security and compliance, and establish robust CI/CD with observability across backend, frontend, and data services.

You will lead critical audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) and shape the security posture, secrets management, and incident response, enabling scalable, compliant workflows

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Experience with production Kubernetes and Terraform at scale.
• Experience leading platform teams in fast-growth startups.
• Security/compliance frameworks: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the end-to-end cloud strategy, architecting and scaling the Azure/AKS environment for demanding financial-services 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 critical SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits, implementing robust security, secrets management, and compliance measures (GDPR, FCA).

Skills

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure

Security compliance

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Observability

On-call

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Tools

Terraform

Azure

PostgreSQL

MySQL

NoSQL

Job description

Dex is seeking a senior platform/infra leader to define the cloud strategy and build the team from scratch for a partner focused on enterprise AI in financial services. You will own the Azure/AKS architecture, drive security and compliance, and establish robust CI/CD with observability across backend, frontend, and data services.

You will lead critical audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) and shape the security posture, secrets management, and incident response, enabling scalable, compliant workflows