Senior Engineering Team Lead (Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Engineering Team Lead (Platform/DevOps): Leading and nurturing a platform engineering team responsible for building and operating a self-service internal platform with an accent on architectural decisions for secure, scalable, and resilient systems. Focus on combining people leadership, technical depth in cloud-native infrastructure, and strategic thinking to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.

Location: Office-first, 4 days per week in London, UK

Salary: Up to £135,000

Company

hirify.global is a high-growth technology company building a mission-critical, highly available platform to support in-person commerce at scale.

What you will do

• Build and nurture a high-performing engineering team through coaching, feedback, and empowerment.
• Lead the design and evolution of core infrastructure and self-service platform capabilities.
• Drive architectural decisions that ensure systems are secure, scalable, cost-effective, and resilient.
• Partner closely with senior stakeholders and engineering teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
• Own the delivery of impactful initiatives, balancing speed, reliability, and long-term platform health.

Requirements

• Product-first mindset, treating internal engineers as customers.
• Experience leading Platform, DevOps, or SRE teams, with a strong servant-leadership approach.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure, including: Kubernetes, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Public cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS), Managed databases.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Proven ability to make pragmatic technical decisions under real-world constraints.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.

Nice to have

• Programming experience (ideally Golang, or similar).

Culture & Benefits

• Strong belief in Infrastructure as a Product, high autonomy, and reducing cognitive load for engineers.
• Emphasis on coaching, feedback, and empowerment.
• Equal opportunities employer.