Job Purposes:

As Head of Platform & Security, you will lead and shape the strategic direction of our platform, building, scaling, and running a world-class cloud infrastructure. You will own the full platform engineering function, bring modern engineering, CD, developer experience and autonomy to all, and you become a strong and vocal leader for all our engineering teams.

You will own the security function. Your team will actively follow security best practices and topics, and own the security backlog for our organization. You will be supported and be an an active contributor to Central Group CISO community.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a high-performing Platform & Security team, setting the vision, culture, and technical direction

Own the design, delivery, and evolution of highly available, flexible, secure and cheap infrastructure at scale

Enable great developer experience, leveraging trunk-based and continuous delivery pipeline to enable product engineering teams autonomy

Leverage extensive automation to embed standards, security and operational excellence into every stage of the development lifecycle

Drive a DevSecOps culture where reliability, availability, security are shared responsibilities for all team members

Stay actively engaged with security topics day to day — following the threat landscape, reviewing approaches, and remaining hands-on enough to guide the team and make sound technical decisions

Build and embed security fundamentals across The 1 Platform, developing and continuously improving generalisable approaches to authorization, authentication, abuse detection, abuse prevention, and auditing

Lead platform and product security incident response, ensuring timely detection, escalation, and resolution of security events

Oversee security auditing practices for platform infrastructure, ensuring compliance with internal policies and relevant regulatory requirements

Establish and govern reusable platform standards, golden paths, and self-service capabilities that accelerate product delivery

Define and own the platform and security roadmap, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term scalability, reliability, security, and cost sustainability

Serve as the executive-level technical authority for cloud, Kubernetes, CD, security, and shared infrastructure services

Act as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to engineering, product, finance, compliance, and executive stakeholders

Proactively identify and mitigate scaling, reliability, security, and cost risks before they impact customers

Own and drive the organization's FinOps strategy, ensuring effective cloud cost governance and optimization across compute, storage, networking workloads

Establish cost visibility, attribution, and accountability frameworks across engineering teams

Recruit, develop, and retain senior platform and security engineering talent; build a coaching and mentorship culture within the team

Define and report on engineering, security, and operational metrics, communicating platform health, progress, and investment trade-offs to senior leadership

Watch your leadership impact a rapidly growing company and the lives of our customers

Qualifications

Deep expertise in AWS/GCP, CD Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, API gateways

Demonstrated experience leading and scaling platform, security, engineering teams

Enthusiast to collaborate with all engineers towards excellence as a team

Proven track record of securing cloud environments, API gateways, and platform services at scale, including abuse detection, penetration testing

Strong knowledge of network infrastructure and cloud security architecture

Treats git as the source of truth for everything — infrastructure, configuration, and policy

Holds a BS/BA degree in computer science or a relevant field

Has at least 8 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or DevSecOps/security engineering, with 3+ years in a senior leadership role

Strong command of computer science fundamentals and distributed systems principles

Passionate about reliability, performance, security, and building platforms that others love to use

An exceptional leader and communicator who can inspire engineers, influence executives, and build alignment across diverse stakeholders — from design to compliance

Operates with high autonomy and sound judgment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Thinks at the system, organizational, and business-impact level — not just at the component or team level

Brings a product mindset to platform engineering — focused on developer experience, internal adoption, and measurable business outcomes