Head of Engineering (Cloud & Platform)
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RecargaPayFintech or digital banking
Workable remote: True Workable locations: Brazil. Argentina Location: Brazil. ArgentinaFull-TimeExecutive
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Languages
- Fluent in English and Spanish (Portuguese a plus).
- Experience
- Extensive hands-on experience in software engineering roles
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonSoftware DevelopmentJavaKafkaKubernetesSpring BootGrafanaPrometheusCI/CDRESTful APIsTerraformCoachingNetworkingGitHub ActionsDatadogAWS Lambda
Requirements
- Academic background oriented toward Computer Science, Engineering, or Software Development disciplines.
- Deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture, including multi-account management, VPC design, EKS, ECS, Lambda, and networking topologies.
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi) and GitOps automation at scale.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, workload orchestration, and cost/performance optimization.
- Experience implementing SRE and reliability frameworks: SLOs, error budgets, chaos testing, and automated incident remediation.
- Mastery of observability and monitoring (CloudWatch, Grafana, Datadog, NewRelic) with trace/metric/log correlation.
- Proficiency in security and compliance engineering: IAM, KMS, encryption, secrets lifecycle, policy enforcement (OPA/Rego), and regulatory controls (PCI, LGPD, GDPR).
- Experience defining and governing API and event-driven architectures (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI, Kafka schema registries).
- Deep knowledge of progressive delivery, service mesh (e.g., Istio), and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Strong FinOps acumen: right-sizing, egress optimization, reserved instance and savings plan strategy, and service-level cost attribution.
- Experience integrating AI-assisted workflows (GitHub Copilot Enterprise, LLM-based linters and others) into development and CI pipelines, with measurable productivity impact.
- Extensive hands-on experience in software engineering roles, with solid proficiency in Java (Spring Boot) and working knowledge of Python and asynchronous programming.
- Strong foundation in Object-Oriented Programming and relational database systems.
- Solid understanding of web and mobile application architectures, including security, session management, and development best practices.
- Expertise in Domain-Driven Design and microservices architecture, with proven ability to design high-performance, scalable, and reliable distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the Cloud and Platform strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, regulatory frameworks, and cost-efficiency goals.
- Lead a multi-disciplinary organization covering Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps, fostering collaboration and shared accountability for uptime, security, and performance.
- Drive modernization of infrastructure and delivery pipelines, enabling a unified, automated, and compliant cloud environment.
- Partner with executive leadership to define scalable operating models, balancing autonomy for product squads with standardized guardrails and golden paths.
- Establish a long-term architectural vision for cloud services, platform frameworks, and developer enablement tools.
- Sponsor AI-assisted engineering adoption to enhance developer productivity, reduce toil, and accelerate delivery (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, LLM-based agents).
- Serve as the ultimate technical and strategic authority for AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, Observability, and Reliability practices across the organization.
- Oversee the design, scalability, and governance of the AWS multi-account organization, enforcing security, compliance, and cost policies (Control Tower, SCPs, Service Catalog).
- Lead the definition and implementation of multi-region, multi-environment architectures ensuring reliability, latency optimization, and disaster recovery readiness (RPO/RTO).
- Institutionalize well-architected principles (Security, Reliability, Performance, Cost, Sustainability) and drive continuous improvement programs based on regular audits.
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