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 - Azure - Kubernetes (AKS) - 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 If you're excited by the opportunity to build world-class engineering foundations inside one of the most exciting AI businesses in the market, I'd love to speak with you. Apply directly or contact me for a confidential discussion.