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EasyPay's infrastructure processes millions of transactions a day across a national retail network — it can't go down, and it has to scale as we add products and merchants.
You'll own the infrastructure strategy, platform reliability, and the engineers who run it. This is a hands-on leadership role: you set direction and you're accountable when something breaks at 2am.
What success looks like
Within 6 months: full visibility into infrastructure cost, capacity and risk, with a remediation plan for the highest-severity gaps underway.
Within 12 months: measurable uplift in platform uptime and incident recovery time, backed by a infrastructure roadmap the CTO and exec team trust.
An infrastructure team that operates with clear ownership, on-call discipline, and shrinking mean-time-to-resolution.
What you'll own
Set and execute EasyPay's infrastructure strategy — cloud, on-prem, and hybrid — aligned to product and transaction growth
Own platform reliability, capacity planning, and disaster recovery for systems processing high-volume, real-time payment transactions
Lead and grow the infrastructure engineering team, including on-call rotation and incident response
Drive infrastructure cost efficiency without compromising uptime or security
Partner with security, compliance, and engineering leads to keep infrastructure audit-ready (PCI-DSS and relevant financial services requirements)
Modernise legacy infrastructure and drive automation (IaC, CI/CD, observability) across the estate
Report infrastructure health, risk, and roadmap directly to the CTO and exec team
What you bring
8+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering, with 3+ years leading a team
Proven experience running high-availability, high-transaction-volume production systems
Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid/on-prem environments
Strong grasp of networking, security fundamentals, and incident management at scale
Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling
Track record of managing infrastructure cost and capacity in a fast-growing environment
Comfortable being the escalation point when production is down
Nice to have
Experience in payments, banking, or another regulated financial services environment
Exposure to PCI-DSS compliance requirements
Experience managing infrastructure across multiple data centres or regions
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