Head of Platform Engineering

Head of Platform Engineering | AI Scale-Up | London

Build the platform powering the future of AI.

We're partnering with a rapidly growing, venture-backed AI company that's transforming how leading financial institutions leverage artificial intelligence. Following major recent investment and significant customer growth, they're looking for a Head of Platform Engineering to lead the next phase of platform maturity and scale.

This is an opportunity to join an ambitious engineering organisation at a pivotal stage of growth and take ownership of the infrastructure, reliability, security, and developer experience that underpins the entire business.

What You'll Be Doing

• Define and execute the Platform Engineering strategy
• Scale cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities
• Lead and grow a high-performing Platform Engineering team
• Own Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD and cloud operations
• Drive reliability, observability and performance across the engineering organisation
• Lead security, compliance and operational excellence initiatives
• Improve developer productivity and enable faster, safer deployments
• Partner closely with Engineering Leadership to shape the company's technical future

Tech Environment

• Terraform
• Docker
• CI/CD Automation
• Cloud Security & Compliance
• Observability & Reliability Tooling

What We're Looking For

• Experience leading Platform, Infrastructure, SRE or DevOps teams
• Strong background in cloud-native environments
• Deep Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code expertise
• Proven experience scaling engineering organisations
• Strong understanding of security, reliability and operational best practices
• Builder mindset with a passion for creating engineering platforms that accelerate teams

Why Join?

• Fast-growing AI company with significant funding
• Genuine opportunity to shape engineering strategy
• High-calibre engineering team
• Build and scale a platform function with real ownership