NexGen Cloud

PlatformOperationsLead

United Kingdom Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Mid+ candidates.

The Brief

“Platform Operations Lead at NexGen Cloud. Skills: operational maturity, cloud infrastructure, automation, tooling, runbooks, support processes, reliability, observability, incident response, operational readiness. 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”

What You'll Achieve.

scale the operational maturity of its cloud infrastructure; reduce operational load on engineering teams; improving reliability, observability, incident response and operational readiness across our platform; building practical solutions; improving how teams work; taking ownership of operational outcomes; support a growing cloud platform; Reduce repeatable manual work; improve operational efficiency, reliability or scale

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

problem-solving

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

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

Nice to Have

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

What You'll Do.

Build and improve scalable infrastructure operations processes that support a growing cloud platform

Enable customer-facing and operational teams with secure automation

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

vendors or approaches that could improve operational efficiency

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

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

working across multiple technical and non-technical teams to improve processes and outcomes; working closely with Infrastructure, DevOps and Engineering teams; Design and maintain runbooks, escalation paths and ownership models between technical and customer-facing teams; Act as a bridge between technical infrastructure teams and the teams supporting customers day to day

Communication Scope

communication

Full Job Description

Platform Operations Lead Location: UK (Remote) Department: Infrastructure Reporting to: Head of Infrastructure ABOUT NEXGEN CLOUD: NexGen Cloud is the company behind Hyperstack, a full-stack AI cloud serving tens of thousands of customers from AI researchers to enterprises running the world's most compute-intensive workloads. We deliver on-demand and private GPU infrastructure to teams who treat performance as a requirement, not a feature. We're a tight-knit, fast-moving team working at the cutting edge of AI cloud infrastructure. We practice what we preach, equipping our people with AI at every level so we can solve harder problems, ship faster, and keep raising the bar for what enterprise GPU infrastructure looks like. THE ROLE: Platform Operations Lead 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: Rather than a long checklist, here's what success in this role looks like: 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

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