Head of Platform Engineering

Head of Platform Engineering
Location: London
Role Type: Permanent
Work Setup: Hybrid

Who We Are
Robert Walters is the world's most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.

Who You Will Work With
Our client is a global financial services organisation providing specialist banking and financial markets solutions. The company offers a collaborative, multicultural and professionally driven environment, with opportunities for career development across a range of banking and corporate functions.

What You'll Do

• Lead the infrastructure engineering strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities, enterprise architecture, technology standards and regulatory requirements.
• Own infrastructure solution design and governance, ensuring proposed solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, supportable and compliant with bank standards before implementation.
• Define and enforce infrastructure engineering standards, design patterns, environment principles and life cycle management practices to promote consistency, resilience and effective control across the bank.
• Drive automation-first delivery, including Infrastructure as Code where appropriate, to improve the repeatability, auditability and efficiency of provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, patching, recovery and operational support.
• Establish robust delivery controls and guardrails, including approval processes, validation gates, segregation of duties, release controls, version management, peer review and auditability throughout the infrastructure life cycle.
• Strengthen operational resilience and service stability by standardising environments, reducing configuration drift, improving monitoring and incident response, and maintaining effective availability, recovery, disaster recovery and performance management practices.
• Lead and develop high-performing infrastructure engineering teams while collaborating with architecture, security, operations, service management and delivery stakeholders to drive continuous improvement, evaluate emerging technologies and deliver sustainable on-premises hosting capabilities.

What You Bring

• Proven experience leading large or complex infrastructure engineering teams and developing strategic technology roadmaps.
• Strong expertise in infrastructure architecture, solution design governance, engineering standards and technical decision-making.
• Extensive experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code, using tools and languages such as Ansible, PowerShell and Python.
• Solid knowledge of automated infrastructure delivery, operational resilience and site reliability engineering practices.
• Experience with observability, disaster recovery, incident management and maintaining stable, reliable infrastructure services.
• Strong understanding of governance, risk, security, regulatory and audit requirements within infrastructure engineering.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to balance technical delivery with business and operational needs.

What's Next
If you are ready to take the next step, apply now! Successful applicants will be contacted directly by a recruiter to discuss the role more.

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This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organizations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.