We are engaged with a well established global travel technology company, whose search platform serves millions of travellers every month, in their search for a Hybrid Platform Team Lead.

The role

You will lead a team of eight engineers, six Site Reliability Engineers and two Network Engineers, responsible for the company’s hybrid infrastructure across Google Cloud, its own data centres and the network that connects them. The role is split roughly equally between technical leadership and people management. You will remain closely involved in architecture, automation and critical troubleshooting while developing and managing the performance of your team.

Over the first six months you will lead two key projects: the build of a new point of presence in Dallas, and the onboarding of new GPU infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

Own the strategy and roadmap for hybrid infrastructure across GCP, data centre and campus
Shape architecture and contribute to infrastructure as code and automation
Set and track reliability targets, and run a sustainable, paid on call rotation
Manage hardware lifecycle, vendors, contracts and team budget
Lead hiring, coaching, performance management and career development for the team

Requirements

Hands on experience across cloud (ideally GCP) and on premise data centre and network infrastructure
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF and modern data centre architectures such as IP fabric
Experience with Terraform, Ansible or similar, Kubernetes and CI/CD
Proven experience leading or mentoring infrastructure, network or platform engineers
Experience in lean or scale-up environments where resourcefulness on a budget is essential

Experience with Juniper, GCP hybrid connectivity, colocation or FinOps would be advantageous.