[Hiring] Platform Operations Lead @NexGen Cloud

Role Description

This role exists to help NexGen Cloud scale the operational maturity of its cloud infrastructure as demand grows across regions, customers and services.

You'll sit at the intersection of Infrastructure, DevOps, Engineering and Customer Experience, helping reduce operational load on engineering teams through automation, tooling, runbooks and clear support processes. You'll play a key role in improving reliability, observability, incident response and operational readiness across our platform.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys building practical solutions, improving how teams work, and taking ownership of operational outcomes in a fast-moving cloud environment.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build and improve scalable infrastructure operations processes that support a growing cloud platform
• Enable customer-facing and operational teams with secure automation, diagnostics, tooling and clear workflows
• Reduce repeatable manual work by identifying operational pain points and turning them into automated or self-service solutions
• Support the rollout and readiness of new infrastructure environments, working closely with Infrastructure, DevOps and Engineering teams
• Improve observability, incident response and operational documentation across production environments
• Design and maintain runbooks, escalation paths and ownership models between technical and customer-facing teams
• Evaluate new tools, vendors or approaches that could improve operational efficiency, reliability or scale
• Coach and enable teams to adopt automation-first ways of working
• Act as a bridge between technical infrastructure teams and the teams supporting customers day to day

Qualifications

• Strong background in infrastructure, cloud operations, DevOps, platform engineering or operational engineering
• Experience supporting production environments where reliability, incident response and operational discipline matter
• Proven ability to design or implement automation that reduces manual operational workload
• Strong scripting, tooling or workflow automation skills, with an emphasis on clarity, maintainability and security
• Experience working across multiple technical and non-technical teams to improve processes and outcomes
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, infrastructure platforms or orchestration technologies
• Ability to operate both hands-on and strategically in a fast-moving scale-up environment
• Strong documentation, communication and problem-solving skills
• A sense of ownership and accountability for operational outcomes

Requirements

• Experience with GPU, high-performance compute, cloud infrastructure or managed infrastructure platforms
• Exposure to Kubernetes, OpenStack, Grafana, Windmill automation platforms or infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Experience helping build or mature 24/7 support, NOC, SRE or technical operations capabilities
• Experience designing self-service tooling for support, operations or customer-facing teams

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Employee wellbeing benefits
• 25 days of holiday, plus public holidays
• Flexible working arrangements (remote or hybrid, depending on role and location)
• Real ownership and autonomy, with the trust to take initiative and experiment
• The opportunity to make a visible, meaningful impact as we scale
• Clear career progression and growth opportunities in a fast-growing company
• A collaborative, international culture built on trust, transparency, and ownership
• The chance to help shape NexGen Cloud's team, culture, and future alongside ambitious, mission-driven colleagues