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We’re looking for an Engineering Lead to oversee our Adyen Cloud Services (ACS) Platforms team. This team owns the lifecycle of a massive, distributed global fleet of servers and platforms across both private and public clouds. You’ll lead the work that keeps our infrastructure reliable, scalable, and secure as it supports critical banking platforms and high-volume transaction processing, targeting 99.999% availability across hybrid and on-prem ecosystems.
Job Responsibility:
Hyper-focus on customer needs by creating and managing a platform that will be consumed as a product
Lead and grow a high-performing global team, directly managing distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones (Amsterdam, US, APAC)
Bring structure and process to execution, introducing and refining operational processes to achieve excellent levels of availability (99.999%)
Foster a culture of operational excellence where engineers own production, on-call rotations, and incident response
Scale for massive growth, guiding the team to address key challenges related to managing large global platforms (OpenStack, CloudStack) and public cloud adoption
Integrate security and best practices, ensuring security-first mindsets are integrated into the platform
Scale AI practices in the platforms group, making AI an integral part of the platform
Requirements:
Experienced engineering leader with a proven track record of overseeing the lifecycle of large, distributed global platforms
Deep understanding of private cloud technologies (Mastering OpenStack, network topologies) and expertise in public cloud adoption with major providers
Familiarity with configuration management frameworks like Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
Strong engineering perspective, acting as a bridge between commercial and technical stakeholders
Hands-on leader comfortable with technical/domain-relevant discussions regarding network protocols (TCP/IP, TLS, WebSockets) and large distributed systems
Capable of driving Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to pilot teams to gather real-world feedback quickly
Nice to have:
Prior experience with banking platforms, or managing highly regulated platforms
Deep understanding of network engineering challenges in hostile environments and security integrity monitoring