Platform Engineering Team Lead (London, UK)

Back to all rolesPlatform Engineering Team Lead (London, UK)ApplyJob detailsFunctional Structure / Tech Ops - Platform Engineering (PE)CellPoint Digital LimitedFull-timeJoin CellPoint Digital: Shape the Future of Payments with Us!At CellPoint Digital, we’re revolutionizing the way businesses in the air, travel, and hospitality sectors manage their payments. With our Leading Payment Orchestration Platform, we’re turning payments into a strategic advantage, helping clients optimize their payment experience to boost profits, maximize approvals, lower costs and take control of their payment, resulting in more money to the bottom line.We believe payments should be a strategic asset, delivering financial, customer, and operational value. Our vision is to unify the payment ecosystem, opening up a world of opportunities for leading brands in the air, travel, and hospitality industries. We transform the payment supply chain from a cost center into a profit engine, turning every transaction into an opportunity for growth and competitive advantage.At our core, we're innovators and problem-solvers united by five key values: Mission First, Ownership, Trust & Transparency, Driven, and One Team. We're ambitious professionals who embrace accountability and transform payments together.Our diverse community spans the globe, with hubs in Copenhagen, Dallas, Dubai, London, Miami, Pune, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Mexico, and Singapore, along with remote team members worldwide. We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences that make our team extraordinary.Join us as a Platform Engineering Team Lead on our mission to turn payments into possibilities!Platform Engineering Team LeadWe are currently seeking a full-time Platform Engineering Team Lead, to support the business with evolving our system infrastructure and empowering our engineering teams. Our ideal candidate would have expertise across modern cloud ecosystems, a strong focus on Developer Experience, and system reliability.To help build and run a world-class infrastructure and service, we are looking for a team lead who is passionate about technology, automation, and capable of spanning the many technologies in scope, while removing friction for the rest of our engineering teams.This role requires a minimum of three days per week on-site at our Victoria, London office.The salary for this position is GBP 100,000 annually. How You Will Make an Impact:Lead and Empower: Guide and mentor a dedicated pod within our broader 10-person platform engineering team. You will drive technical initiatives and set the standard for engineering excellence while reporting directly to the Head of TechOps.Elevate Developer Experience (DevEx): Act as an advocate for our developers. You will remove friction and accelerate delivery by building self-service tools, streamlining local development, and championing GitOps deployment cycles Automation: Lead building out and improving automation for platform-level tooling, operators, and automation.Scale GKE Platforms: Architect, manage, and scale our multi-regional GKE environments, spanning both standard and Autopilot clusters across our two primary platforms.Automate Security & Compliance: Collaborate with our security team to turn platform governance into an engineering challenge. You’ll integrate security directly into our pipelines and utilize compliance frameworks like Sprinto.High Reliability & Escalation: Drive infrastructure improvements focused on global load balancing, disaster recovery, cloud-native databases (Cloud SQL, Spanner), and robust telemetry pipelines. You will also participate in an on-call rotation, acting as a crucial escalation point for our SRE team during complex incidents.Technical Expertise:Cloud Native Mastery: Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), specifically designing and managing high-availability, multi-regional infrastructure.Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced experience writing modular, scalable IaC using a combination...