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We value autonomy, ownership and teamwork.\nJoin our Infrastructure team and take on technical and leadership challenges at the heart of our payment platform.\nYour Role\nReporting to the Head of Engineering, you'll lead our team of four System Engineers, drive our AWS-first strategy and keep our platform secure, reliable and cost-efficient.\nThis is a hands-on role: around half of your time will go to engineering work alongside your team, the other half to technical leadership, governance, planning and people management.\nYou'll join the Engineering management team, shaping technical direction alongside fellow team leads and senior technical contributors. You’ll work closely with Security, Compliance, Risk, Finance and Operations, and above all with delivery teams, giving them a secure, compliant platform they can ship on autonomously.\nWhat You'll Work On\nOur Infrastructure team powers a payment platform undergoing significant modernisation, with the following key priorities:\nAWS-first: Migrating our remaining on-premises solutions to the cloud and making AWS the default for everything we build and run.\nReliability and compliance: Keeping our infrastructure reliable, observable and compliant with PCI-DSS, PCI-PIN, DORA and other regulatory requirements.\nPlatform hardening: Strengthening the security of our operating systems, networks and third-party integrations against evolving threats.\nAutonomous delivery enablement: Improving our operating model so delivery teams ship autonomously through a DevOps culture, CI/CD and automation, while keeping strong control over production changes.\nWhat You'll Do\nSystem Engineering:\nLead the infrastructure side of our AWS migration while keeping existing systems stable.\nDesign, build and troubleshoot cloud and on-premises systems using Terraform, Ansible, Docker and AWS services.\nBuild and improve the CI/CD pipelines, automation and self-service tooling that delivery teams use to deploy and run their services.\nOperate our MySQL databases in production.\nParticipate in a compensated on-call rotation, approximately one week per month.\nTeam Leadership:\nHold one-to-ones, provide regular feedback and conduct annual performance reviews.\nManage recruitment, onboarding and team development, coaching engineers and strengthening technical practices.\nBuild a healthy, collaborative team culture where issues are raised and resolved early.\nLead delivery planning and execution, balancing team capacity, business priorities, platform reliability and technical debt.\nWork with fellow team leads on cross-team initiatives, such as bringing AI into our engineering workflows and evolving our shared SDLC and change-management practices.\nCommunicate plans, priorities and technical decisions clearly within the team and to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nTechnical and Operational Leadership:\nOwn the infrastructure roadmap, in alignment with delivery teams and the Engineering management team.\nOwn monitoring, alerting and incident management: SLOs, MTTA/MTTR, observability dashboards and blameless post-mortems.\nLead cloud architecture discussions and decisions with architects and delivery teams.\nShape our platform engineering approach, providing self-service tools and guidance that empower delivery teams.\nDrive security initiatives together with Security and Risk.\nOwn infrastructure spend: track costs, negotiate with providers, and optimise our usage.\nWhat You Bring\nEssential:\nStrong AWS experience, including architecture, operations and security.\nSolid experience with Linux, Docker and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).\nGood understanding of networking and hybrid cloud/on-premises environments.\nExperience with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability and production troubleshooting.\nExperience leading an engineering team, including direct people management, coaching and delivery ownership.\nStrong communication skills and the ability to work across teams.\nA pragmatic, business-aware approach to technical decisions.\nProfessional working proficiency in English.\nNice to Have:\nExperience operating MySQL in production.\nExperience with HSMs.\nExperience in payments, fintech or another regulated environment, ideally with PCI-DSS, PCI-PIN or DORA.\nExperience working with vendors and keeping infrastructure costs under control.\nDon't tick every box? We'd still like to hear from you\nHow We Work\nOur engineering culture is built on a balance between autonomy and teamwork, guided by three principles:\nAutonomy: \"I can do it.\" Take initiative, solve problems and know when to ask for help.\nOwnership: \"I make sure it gets done.\" Take responsibility and follow things through.\nOne Team: \"We succeed together.\" Communicate openly, share knowledge and support each other.\nWhat we offer\nA hands-on leadership role with real autonomy and impact on how our payment platform evolves.\nTechnical challenges in payments, including the modernisation of existing systems.\nA collaborative team and opportunities to develop your skills.\nHybrid working and a benefits package including 32 days of holiday, a mobility budget, meal vouchers, health and group insurance, a phone, and a homeworking allowance.\nInterview Process\nTechnical Background and Ways of Working (60-90 min): Meet other Engineering Team Leads. 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