Hybrid Director of Platform Services

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About the role

  • Lead Virgin Red’s internal engineering capabilities and manage technology vendors to build scalable, resilient, secure platforms
  • Drive the platform strategy, delivering reusable services, tooling, and CI/CD pipelines for product teams
  • Champion developer experience by introducing self-service approaches to reduce toil and speed delivery
  • Set standards for engineering excellence and lead high-performing product and platform engineering teams
  • Collaborate with Architecture, Product, Security, and Data teams to deliver solutions
  • Introduce and promote AI-assisted engineering, observability, automation and modern practices
  • Define architectural patterns for highly-reliable, reusable microservices and APIs

Requirements

  • A track record of leading software and platform engineering teams to deliver real impact
  • Hands-on experience building or scaling products and platforms that deliver innovative, data-driven customer experiences
  • Demonstrable experience in evolving engineering teams into high-performance functions aligned to strategic business outcomes
  • Ability to engage with senior stakeholders – from C-suite to engineers
  • Deep knowledge of modern cloud-native technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring stacks) and data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, etc.)
  • Solid understanding of architectural patterns that deliver highly-reliable and re-usable microservices and APIs
  • A collaborative, pragmatic approach – balancing big-picture strategy with delivery focus
  • Willingness to undergo credit check and global sanctions check

Benefits

  • Unlimited leave
  • "Screw it, let's do it pot" (personal discretionary fund)
  • Learning budget / professional development
  • Top-notch health care
  • Family support
  • Pension plan
  • Electric vehicle benefits
  • Flexible volunteering opportunities
  • Flexible working hours
  • Bonus

Job title

Director of Platform Services

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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