Director of Platform and Reliability

Overview

You will own the platform’s architecture, reliability and deployment of scalable, secure infrastructure for a fast-growing fintech. Reporting to the CTO, you lead platform strategy, cloud architecture and operational resilience while executing major technical initiatives hands-on. You will collaborate with the CTO, Head of Engineering and CISO to ensure secure, observable, cost-effective systems ready to scale. This role combines leadership with deep technical execution to shape the foundations behind a mission to broaden homeownership access. Expect high-impact work improving resilience, security and platform modernization.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve platform strategy across Azure and AWS
• Drive operational resilience, disaster recovery and incident readiness
• Design, build and modernise production infrastructure
• Champion Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Improve observability, service ownership, SLOs and reliability engineering
• Improve CI/CD, deployment workflows and internal platform tooling
• Partner with 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

Key requirements

• Cloud architecture across Azure and AWS
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Observability and reliability engineering
• CI/CD and platform tooling
• Security collaboration with CISO
• Cloud cost management and vendor management
• Leadership and senior technical authority

• leadership
• strategic thinking
• cross-functional collaboration
• Azure
• AWS
• Terraform

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