Platform Engineering Lead

Role Summary

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Join a fast-growing fintech as a Platform Engineering Team Lead, driving the evolution of cloud infrastructure, platform reliability and developer experience that powers a globally distributed payment platform. We're looking for an experienced hands-on engineering leader with deep expertise across GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, automation and platform engineering, combined with a passion for building scalable self-service platforms.

Lorenz Pasch: | | My full contact details are available on my LinkedIn profile

No visa sponsorship is available for this position.

The Opportunity

Platform engineering sits at the heart of this organisation's future growth strategy. You'll lead a dedicated platform engineering function responsible for building the cloud foundations, automation capabilities and developer tooling that enable engineering teams to deliver securely, reliably and at scale.
This is an opportunity to shape strategy while remaining technically involved, driving platform innovation across cloud infrastructure, reliability, security and developer enablement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Platform Engineers.
• Architect and scale multi-region Google Cloud infrastructure.
• Own and evolve GKE Standard and Autopilot environments.
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code adoption using Terraform and Config Connector.
• Build self-service tooling and improve developer experience across engineering teams.
• Champion GitOps, automation and modern platform engineering practices.
• Work closely with Security teams to embed governance and compliance into engineering platforms.
• Strengthen resilience across global load balancing, disaster recovery and observability.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex platform incidents.
• Contribute to operational excellence through incident management and on-call participation.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience leading platform, cloud, infrastructure or DevOps engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform.
• Deep Kubernetes and GKE experience.
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code background.
• Experience operating highly available, cloud-native production platforms.
• Understanding of modern security practices, including Zero Trust approaches.
• Experience implementing automation, GitOps and platform engineering best practices.
• Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership skills.

Highly Desirable

• Experience within fintech, SaaS or high-transaction digital platforms.
• Experience with Cloud SQL, Spanner and cloud-native databases.
• Knowledge of Cloud Armor, global load balancing and disaster recovery strategies.
• Exposure to developer platforms and internal developer portals.

Why Apply?

• Genuine ownership of platform strategy and technical direction.
• Opportunity to build rather than maintain.
• Work with a globally distributed engineering organisation.
• High-impact leadership role within a scaling technology business.
• Competitive salary, benefits and flexible working arrangements.

Lorenz Pasch | Hays Recruitment

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