Head of Infrastructure Engineering
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About the Position
We are seeking a Head of Infrastructure Engineering to lead our global infrastructure, platform engineering, and SRE strategy at Revolut. If you are passionate about driving operational excellence, reliability, and scalability, we want you on our team.
About the Role
Our Technology team builds the systems and experiences that keep Revolut moving. From the infrastructure behind our innovative app to the features used by millions of people around the world, they bring sharp thinking, speed, and a focus on meaningful impact to everything they do.
As the Head of Infrastructure Engineering, you will be responsible for:
- Owning the global infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, and SRE strategy
- Designing and evolving a secure, scalable hybrid architecture across cloud and on-premises
- Leading infrastructure expansion into new regions with repeatable deployment models
- Driving automation through IaC, GitOps, CI/CD, and self-service platforms
- Owning reliability, performance, capacity, security, compliance, and cost efficiency
- Building and leading infrastructure, platform, and SRE teams
- Staying close to implementation by reviewing designs, challenging decisions, and guiding incidents
- Partnering with Engineering, Security, Product, and Finance team leaders on infrastructure investment
Responsibilities
- Own the global infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, and SRE strategy
- Design and evolve a secure, scalable hybrid architecture across cloud and on-premises
- Lead infrastructure expansion into new regions with repeatable deployment models
- Drive automation through IaC, GitOps, CI/CD, and self-service platforms
- Own reliability, performance, capacity, security, compliance, and cost efficiency
- Build and lead infrastructure, platform, and SRE teams
- Stay close to implementation by reviewing designs, challenging decisions, and guiding incidents
- Partner with Engineering, Security, Product, and Finance team leaders on infrastructure investment
Requirements
- Significant experience leading infrastructure, platform, cloud, production, or SRE teams, owning business-critical infrastructure at scale
- Expertise with AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Solid CI/CD and GitOps experience
- Demonstrated SRE practice with SLOs, error budgets, incident management, postmortems, and capacity planning
- Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability platforms
- Familiarity with high-availability and disaster-recovery design
- A track record leading infrastructure expansion across multiple regions
- Experience managing vendors, budgets, and infrastructure costs
- Comfortable operating at both executive and detailed engineering levels
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of hybrid cloud and on-premises
- Compliance familiarity (ISO 27001, SOC 2)
- Experience with large-scale cloud providers
Compensation
- Krakow: PLN 44,000 - PLN 44,000 gross monthly*
- Poland: PLN 44,000 - PLN 44,000 gross monthly*
- Other locations: Compensation will be discussed during the interview process
*Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate's qualifications, skills, and previous experience
About the Company
People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products - including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more - help our 80+ million customers get more from their money every day.
As we continue our lightning-fast growth, our people and our culture are essential to our success. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. We have 13,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.
We Offer
- Financial benefits that show we value your work
- Flexibility to work from home, the office, or abroad
- A Revolut Metal subscription loaded with perks
- Exciting events year-round so you can get to know your team
Important notice for candidates:
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