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Head of Platform Foundations

Kaluza · Bristol (remote)

Kaluza's platform coordinates millions of real-time energy decisions for suppliers such as OVO, AGL and ENGIE. This Head of Platform Foundations leads four teams covering the internal platform, reliability, releases and AI tooling, so Kaluza can add clients and markets without costs rising to match.

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Company
Kaluza
Where
Bristol (remote)
Function
Engineering
Posted
3 weeks ago
Team
Engineering
Work mode
Remote

The role

What you’ll do

  • Set a multi-year platform strategy with product and engineering leadership
  • Lead the use of AI tooling and agents across engineering and measure the impact
  • Own reliability, SLOs and incident response across client instances
  • Manage cloud costs, FinOps and partners such as AWS and Datadog

What you’ll need

  • Senior leadership of a platform function, managing through engineering managers
  • Experience delivering a multi-year platform strategy
  • Running reliability at scale for a multi-tenant SaaS platform, ideally on AWS
  • Hands-on experience rolling out AI tooling that changed how engineers work

Good to know: £115,200 to £144,000 plus bonus. London or Bristol, 3 office days a week. No visa sponsorship.

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Thu19NovNov'26: "Automation via fabric-toolbox" & "Fabric Apps When, Where & Why" EcosuretyAI & ML eventSaaS event
Wed25NovMicrosoft 365 Copilot User Group Aerospace BristolAI & ML eventSaaS event

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