Platform & Reliability Director — Cloud, Resilience & Scale

LinuxRecruit; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

LinuxRecruit is seeking a hands-on technical leader to own platform infrastructure, reliability and security, reporting to the CTO, and shaping architecture from production to scale. You will own cloud strategy across Azure and AWS, drive resilience, design modern production systems, champion Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, and improve observability and CI/CD.

This director-level role blends strategy with hands-on delivery, offering influence over the technology foundations as the fintech

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve platform strategy across Azure and AWS
• Drive operational resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity and incident readiness, including recovery objectives and resilience testing
• Design, build and modernise production infrastructure
• Champion Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Improve observability, service ownership, SLOs, incident response, on-call practices and reliability engineering
• Improve CI/CD, deployment workflows, developer environments and internal platform tooling
• Partner with the CISO on cloud security, access, secrets and infrastructure risk
• Improve cloud cost, capacity, performance and vendor management
• Lead major infrastructure migrations, platform modernisation and security improvements
• Act as the senior technical authority for platform and reliability

Skills

Cloud architecture

Terraform

Reliability engineering

Incident response

Leadership

Azure

AWS

Job description

LinuxRecruit is seeking a hands-on technical leader to own platform infrastructure, reliability and security, reporting to the CTO, and shaping architecture from production to scale. You will own cloud strategy across Azure and AWS, drive resilience, design modern production systems, champion Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, and improve observability and CI/CD.

This director-level role blends strategy with hands-on delivery, offering influence over the technology foundations as the fintech