Platform Engineering Team Lead

CellPoint Digital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CellPoint Digital is seeking an experienced Platform Engineering Team Lead to shape and scale our cloud platform that powers our global payment orchestration business.

You will lead a Platform Engineering team, drive Developer Experience, and build foundations that enable engineering teams to deliver quickly, securely and reliably at scale. This hands-on leadership role involves growing a high-performing team and influencing platform strategy.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Platform, Cloud, Infrastructure or SRE teams.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise.
• Experience building cloud-native platforms in SaaS, FinTech or technology environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Platform Engineers.
• Drive Platform Engineering and Developer Experience initiatives.
• Build and scale Google Cloud and Kubernetes (GKE) platform.
• Champion GitOps, IaC and automation.
• Develop self-service tooling and internal platform capabilities.
• Improve reliability, observability, security and operational excellence.
• Partner with Engineering, Security and Product teams to shape platform strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Developer Experience

Platform strategy

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

At CellPoint Digital, we're looking for an experienced Platform Engineering Team Lead to help shape and scale the cloud platform that powers our global payment orchestration business.

This is an opportunity to lead a Platform Engineering team, drive Developer Experience, and build the foundations that enable engineering teams to deliver quickly, securely and reliably at scale.

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor a team of Platform Engineers
• Drive Platform Engineering and Developer Experience initiatives
• Build and scale our Google Cloud and Kubernetes (GKE) platform
• Champion GitOps, Infrastructure as Code and automation
• Develop self-service tooling and internal platform capabilities
• Improve reliability, observability, security and operational excellence
• Partner with Engineering, Security and Product teams to shape platform strategy

What we're looking for

• Experience leading Platform, Cloud, Infrastructure or SRE teams
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise
• Experience building cloud-native platforms in SaaS, FinTech or technology environments
• Passion for Developer Experience and engineering enablement

Nice to have

• Multi-region cloud environments
• Internal Developer Platform (IDP) experience
• Payments, fintech or high-availability platforms

This is a hands-on leadership role with the opportunity to influence platform strategy, grow a high-performing team and help build the next generation of our engineering platform.

If you're passionate about Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, automation and building platforms that help engineers do their best work, we'd love to hear from you.