CareerPlan

Head of Platform Foundations

London, UK / Bristol, UKFull-time£115k–£144k2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Own the core foundations for the Energy Intelligence Platform, including internal platform reliability, release pipelines, and AI tooling to enable scaling for energy clients.

Role type

Head of Platform Engineering (Senior Leadership)

Builds

Internal platform infrastructure, release pipelines, AI engineering tooling, and production reliability systems for multi-tenant energy clients.

Domain

Energy / Utilities / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Platform strategy & roadmap, scaling platform teams, AI tooling implementation, production reliability (SLOs, incident management), cloud unit economics & FinOps, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

Multi-tenant SaaS experience, regulated markets (energy/utilities), DORA metrics, internal developer platforms, AWS architecture

Technologies

AWS, Datadog, CI/CD, AI agents

Responsibilities

Set multi-year platform strategy and roadmap; Scale platform repeatably at falling marginal cost; Lead AI transformation in engineering; Ensure production reliability via SLOs and incident response; Own software shipping practices (CI/CD, progressive delivery); Manage cloud unit economics and strategic partners; Lead and mentor a UK-based global engineering team.