Platform Lead

### Platform Lead (DevOps / Infrastructure) ### About Us **Are you ready to shape the financial future of a rapidly growing fintech that's transforming lives across Southeast Asia and beyond?** We're not your typical company — we're a rocketship! At **[FINN](https://himalayas.app/companies/finn-app)**, established in 2022 by experienced serial founders, we're on a mission to transform financial well-being for underbanked employees. Our product provides early wage access, financial education, budgeting tools, part-time job opportunities, and micro-insurances. We've hit product-market fit and are scaling aggressively across multiple markets. ### The Role We need a true **Platform Lead** who stays deep in infrastructure but also guides a small, growing Platform team. This is a heavily hands-on role (70–80% technical) with people leadership (20–30% — 1:1s, code-review ownership, tech direction, mentoring, team velocity). If you love architecting production-grade cloud infrastructure yourself _and_ helping engineers around you level up, this is for you. You'll own the infrastructure that powers a high-growth fintech with high-throughput production systems, serving hundreds of thousands of users across Southeast Asia and Africa. We're in the middle of a major infrastructure maturity push: closing IaC gaps, hardening CI/CD, improving observability, and preparing our platform for rapid expansion across multiple markets. This isn't a role where you manage dashboards or sit in meetings all day. You'll architect, build, and operate critical cloud infrastructure — while setting the technical direction for the Platform squad and growing the team. **Future growth into Head of Platform / Infrastructure is realistic for the right person.** ### What You'll Do ### Technical (70–80%) * **Own and operate** cloud infrastructure — compute, networking, identity, and security controls — using Infrastructure-as-Code * **Manage container orchestration** workloads, including cluster upgrades, deployment management, and autoscaling * **Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines** — automated testing, deployment automation, and quality gates * **Drive observability** — implement and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing across all services * **Harden security posture** — cloud security posture management, automated scanning in CI, access policies, network security, and contributing toward industry security certifications * **Manage multi-cloud infrastructure** — we run workloads across multiple cloud providers * **Operate messaging infrastructure** — event-driven architectures, including retry strategies and dead-letter queue management * **Standardize market launches** — build repeatable infrastructure provisioning so new markets can go live in days, not weeks * **Participate in on-call rotation** — respond to production incidents and drive root-cause analysis and prevention ### Leadership (20–30%) * **Set technical direction** for the Platform squad — define the infrastructure roadmap, make build-vs-buy decisions, and establish engineering standards * **Run weekly 1:1s** with platform engineers — coach, unblock, and help them grow * **Own code review** across the platform domain — ensure quality, share knowledge, and maintain consistency * **Keep platform velocity high** — prioritize work, remove blockers, and ensure the team ships reliably * **Mentor and develop** the team — create an environment where engineers do their best work * **Support the wider engineering team** — be the go-to person for infrastructure questions, unblock developers, and create self-service tooling * **Collaborate with product and engineering leadership** — translate business needs into infrastructure strategy * **Contribute to hiring** — help interview and assess platform engineering candidates as the team grows ### Must-Have Experience * **7+ years** in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles * **Team leadership experience** — formally or informally leading a small infrastructure/platform team (mentoring, 1:1s, technical direction) * **Strong cloud infrastructure expertise** — compute, networking, identity management, queuing, monitoring, storage (we use AWS primarily) * **Container orchestration in production** — cluster operations, package management, debugging, resource management (we use Kubernetes) * **Infrastructure-as-Code at scale** — writing, reviewing, and managing IaC with proper state management and modularization (we use Terraform) * **CI/CD pipeline design** — deployment automation, testing integration, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary) * **Linux systems administration** — comfortable debugging at the OS level * **Monitoring and observability** — setting up alerting, dashboards, log aggregation, and incident response * **Security mindset** — experience with access control best practices, network security, secrets management * **Strong communication** — able to explain infrastructure decisions to non-infra engineers, present technical strategies to leadership, and mentor effectively * **Reliable internet and hardware**, able to work ≥35h/week with decent overlap with UTC+8 (Singapore time) ### Nice-to-Have * **Multi-cloud** experience (GCP, Firebase, or similar alongside AWS) * **GitOps** deployment experience (e.g. ArgoCD or similar) * **Event streaming** operations and tuning (e.g. Kafka) * **Compliance frameworks** — ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar * **Cost optimization** — experience reducing cloud spend without sacrificing reliability * **Pen testing coordination** or security audit experience * Experience at a **fintech or financial services** company * Experience with **multi-region or multi-market** infrastructure * Previous experience **growing a platform/infrastructure team** (hiring, onboarding, defining team processes) ### What We Use Today Here's what we work with today — familiarity is a bonus, not a requirement: * **Cloud**: AWS (primary) + GCP/Firebase * **Orchestration**: Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, ArgoCD * **IaC**: Terraform * **CI/CD**: GitHub Actions * **Messaging**: Kafka, SQS * **Monitoring**: Grafana, Sentry, CloudWatch * **Security**: Prowler, Trivy, SonarCloud, Cloudflare WAF * **Backend**: Node.js/TypeScript, Firebase Cloud Functions * **Frontend**: Angular, Ionic/Capacitor ### Why Join * **Real ownership** — you'll shape the infrastructure _and_ the team that builds it * **Leadership trajectory** — clear path from Platform Lead to Head of Platform/Infrastructure as the company scales * **Small team, big impact** — a growing platform team, no layers of bureaucracy * **Growth trajectory** — rapidly expanding across Southeast Asia and Africa * **Modern stack** — container orchestration, IaC, GitOps, event-driven architecture * **Fully remote** — work from anywhere with good overlap to Asia timezones #EMEA #APJ * **Competitive salary + meaningful equity** (early-stage package) Originally posted on [Himalayas](https://himalayas.app)