Platform Engineering Team Lead

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.

We 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. 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 of Terraform and GCP Config Connector.
• Kubernetes Expertise: Proven track record of managing and scaling Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), with an understanding of both Standard and Autopilot modes.
• Zero Trust & Security: Strong understanding of modern security perimeters, implementing Zero Trust access (e.g., Twingate), and securing edge traffic using Cloud Armor and Global Load Balancers.
• Scripting & Automation: A strong foundation in Bash scripting, coupled with the desire and capability to introduce and drive the adoption of more structured languages like Go or Python for robust tooling.

Who you are:

• You are eager to bring your unique talents and authenticity to the CellPoint Digital community.
• You're constantly curious and a lifetime learner.
• You have excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• You enjoy leading and supporting cross-functional initiatives and projects in a team where you are empowered and accountable.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and the challenge of managing multiple projects simultaneously while prioritising high-return work.
• You approach challenges with a solution-oriented mindset.

What's in it for you:

• We offer you the opportunity to be an innovator, challenge the status quo, and redefine the payments category.
• Competitive salary in a fast-growing start-up.
• Opportunity for personal and professional growth in a dynamic industry.

What makes CellPoint Digital a leader in the payment landscape isn’t just our technology - it’s our people and how we work together. We’ve built a global community where diverse talents and perspectives unite to create innovative solutions. When you join us, you become part of something bigger: a collaborative culture that crosses borders and disciplines, bringing out the best in every team member to deliver breakthrough results for our clients and partners. Together, we are transforming the payments industry - challenging, supporting, and inspiring one another in the process.

Please note, we retain applicant data for 12 months for recruitment purposes and future opportunities, after which it is securely deleted. At CellPoint Digital we are committed to be globally compliant with robust data protection.