Head of Platform

This role is part of our Central Platform Team at saas.group. **What is saas.group?**: Also, don't forget to follow saas.group on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on our job openings, podcast episodes, and with all things happening at our company. **Profile Overview**: saas.group is seeking an innovative **Head of Platform** to lead the development and optimization of our platform infrastructure. You will oversee a **Platform team**, strategically deploying resources to support our acquired SaaS brands while collaborating with a **Senior Platform Engineer** to integrate tools like **AWS**, **GitHub Enterprise** and more. The focus will be on implementing **zero-trust principles**, leveraging open-source tools, and delivering scalable, secure, and efficient solutions to empower engineering teams across our portfolio. **Your responsibilities**: - Lead and mentor the Platform team, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation while strategically deploying resources to support acquired and portfolio companies. - Develop and execute a yearly roadmap that connects strategic goals to day-to-day operations, while managing and optimizing the platform budget, balancing infrastructure costs and tool investments. - Champion zero-trust security principles across the platform, ensuring robust identity verification and least-privilege access, leveraging Google Workspace as an IdP. - Oversee the integration and optimization of key tools, including AWS, GitHub Enterprise, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring solutions to maximize efficiency and reliability. - Partner with acquired brands to address infrastructure challenges, deliver custom automation tools, and advocate best practices while respecting individual company needs. - Define and track platform performance through KPIs, dashboards, and data-driven automation, ensuring scalability and operational efficiency. - Drive the adoption of open-source solutions to enhance scalability, cost-efficiency, and platform innovation. - Work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, finance, and leadership, to align platform initiatives with broader business objectives. **What You bring to the table**: - Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure teams, with a strong ability to mentor, deploy resources strategically, and drive technical excellence. - A track record of managing roadmaps and budgets, balancing cost efficiency, and aligning infrastructure spending with business goals. - Deep expertise in platform security, particularly zero-trust implementations, access control, and vulnerability management. - Strong technical proficiency in AWS, GitHub Enterprise, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and automation frameworks. - A data-driven mindset with experience defining KPIs, creating dashboards, and using metrics to improve platform scalability and efficiency. - Ability to work with acquired companies, understanding their unique needs while maintaining a centralized infrastructure strategy. - Passion for open-source solutions and their role in driving innovation, cost reduction, and scalability. - Excellent collaboration skills, able to work closely with leadership, finance, and engineering teams to ensure the platform's success. **What's in it for You**: - **Ultimate flexibility**: We're 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like. - **Freedom and autonomy**: We're a high-trust team, and you'll be given lots of flexibility to solve problems in your own way — with plenty of help from the team when you need it. - **Minimum bureaucracy**: We don't like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable. - **Small & friendly team**: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around. - **Our network**: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, learning and expertise with each other internally. - **Flexible time off**: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed. We don't just simply offer you to "take a job with us" but rather to "join us on this journey" _to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies._ — - saas.group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're passionate about working with a team that values innovation, excellence, and fairness, we encourage you to apply._