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Head of Platform Foundations

Kaluza · Bristol and London

Kaluza runs a platform for energy suppliers such as OVO, AGL and ENGIE across the UK, Europe and Asia-Pacific. This Head of Platform Foundations leads four teams covering the internal platform, reliability, release engineering and AI enablement, with a brief to help Kaluza scale to more clients and markets without costs rising in step.

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Company
Kaluza
Where
Bristol and London
Function
Engineering
Posted
3 weeks ago

The role

What you’ll do

  • Set the multi-year platform strategy and roadmap with product and engineering leaders
  • Lead the AI shift in engineering, embedding tools, agents and guardrails and measuring impact
  • Own reliability, CI/CD and progressive delivery across all client instances
  • Own cloud unit economics and FinOps, and manage partners such as AWS and Datadog

What you’ll need

  • Senior experience running a platform function and growing teams through engineering managers
  • A record of running reliability at scale for a multi-tenant SaaS platform, ideally on AWS
  • Hands-on experience rolling out AI tooling that measurably changed how engineers work
  • Experience owning cloud costs and making investment cases to finance and executives

Good to know: £115,200 to £144,000 plus discretionary bonus. Permanent. Bristol or London, three days a week in the office. No visa sponsorship.

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