Director of Platform Engineering

Posted 11 hours 54 minutes ago by Ross Kane Ltd

£125,000 - £150,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
London, United Kingdom
Job Description

Role: Director of Platform Engineering
Location: London/Hybrid (2 days in person)
Salary: £100K - £120K

Job brief

We are seeking a Director of Platform Engineering for a disruptive Insurtech.

Requirements
  • Experienced platform engineering leader, building an engineering platform on a cloud based infrastructure preferably withAWS using Kubernetes
  • Expert with IaC (bonus if its Terraform) and you have a passion for automating everything.
  • Strong grounding in core computer science principles and software engineering practices
  • Full stack software engineering lifecycle and the role that platform engineering plays in this.
  • Creating an environment in which engineers can thrive and get enjoyment from making peoples lives easier.
  • Experienced in a regulated environments, ideally working with standards such as ISO 27001 / SOC2 and know how to structure a platform and process to meet the needs of those standards.
  • Engaging internal risk and compliance teams and acting as a subject matter expert in external audits.
  • Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
  • Worked modern software delivery methodologies, such as agile, lean, and DevOps.
  • Bonus - Built SaaS products and understand the patterns used to build them