Platform Technical Leader
EveryMatrix2 months ago
Bucharest, RomaniaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the EM3 and PaaS target architecture, technical principles, roadmap, and reusable reference patterns.
- Design platform control planes, management APIs, desired-state models, service catalogues, golden paths, and self-service interfaces.
- Define automated provisioning, configuration, upgrades, patching, recovery, rollback, version compliance, and decommissioning across infrastructure, Kubernetes, and platform services.
- Lead deployment patterns for single-tenant and multi-tenant environments across datacentres and public cloud platforms.
- Establish reliability, production-readiness, observability, resilience-testing, SLI/SLO, service-ownership, and future SRE operating-model standards.
- Embed DevSecOps through policy as code, secrets and identity controls, supply-chain security, compliance automation, and automated evidence.
- Lead cross-team technical decisions and align Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, DBA, Networking, Security, Architecture, and Product Engineering.
- Define technical acceptance criteria and decision gates for proof of concept, production, lifecycle, security, and operational readiness.
- Own the technical direction and roadmap for private cloud infrastructure as a product.
- Deliver secure CI/CD platform services with pipelines, secrets management, access control, and compliance controls built in by default.
- Set and report on service-level agreements, capacity plans, cost transparency, engineering standards, and platform reliability.
- Mentor senior engineers and help develop future Platform Engineering, SRE, and DevSecOps leaders.
- Drive platform reliability through on-call arrangements, incident response, and post-incident learning.
Requirements
- Proven experience designing, building, or transforming a large-scale internal platform or Platform as a Service capability.
- Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure lifecycle management across multiple clusters, locations, or tenants.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, networking, identity, secrets, storage, distributed data services, and observability.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, declarative configuration, reconciliation, platform APIs, and policy-driven automation.
- Experience delivering automated upgrades, patching, rollback, recovery, and version management.
- Experience defining platform products, self-service services, service ownership, and operating models.
- Strong understanding of SRE practices and reliable, observable, production-ready services.
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps, software supply-chain security, platform security, and automated compliance controls.
- Experience leading complex technical change across multiple teams without direct organizational authority.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Preferred experience establishing Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevSecOps capabilities; working with hybrid, on-premises, private-cloud, and public-cloud platforms; and supporting single-tenant or multi-tenant deployment models.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes fleet management, progressive delivery, upgrade rings, low-downtime change, distributed services, and regulated, audited, or high-availability environments.
- Preferred experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka, Redis, or Elasticsearch.
Benefits
- 22 days of annual leave initially, increasing by two days annually up to 32 days by the fifth year.
- Hybrid work is available after the first three months in accordance with company policy.
- Two paid Free Fridays per year, limited to one per quarter.
- Three sick-leave days per year without a doctor’s note.
- Daily catered lunch or a monthly lunch allowance.
- Private medical subscription.
- Udemy for Business access and a budget for external training.
- Employee Assistance Program through TELUS Health.
- Office parking, on-site massages, team-building activities, a pool, and a gym.
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About EveryMatrix
EveryMatrix builds modular iGaming software for online casino and sports-betting operators, including platform, casino aggregation, sportsbook, payments, and affiliate/agent systems. It sells these as B2B SaaS and managed services to operators and state lotteries in regulated markets, with APIs and back-office tools for online and retail channels. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Sliema, Malta, the privately held company is a member of the World Lottery Association.