Snapshot · 23 October 2026 This ad is tekFinder's JobAdder listing as it stood that day. On the live site it updates itself and comes down when the role is filled.
- Director of Platforms
- Platform Architect
- Head of Tech
The role
Hiring; Head of Platforms / Founding Architect - Data Centre space - Sydney - circa $250k base neg.
We’ve just kicked off a Head of Platform search with a new client of ours.
This is a billion dollar+ Australian business who have just created a new tech company - an AI-focused cloud business building the kind of high-performance compute that the next wave of AI products will run on.
We are looking to make the companies first tech hire - someone to get the platform architected, designed and live fast, working with hardware vendors, data centre operators and cloud providers. Over time, bring it in-house and build their own infrastructure and engineering team from the ground up.
Think of it like a founding engineer for the data centre space, with the support of the wider business around you. Very much startup vibes and it is going to be a bit nuts, 2bh.
We’re looking for someone who’s spent 10+ years in tech leadership (VP Eng, Head of Infra or CTO level) from the networking world with deep cloud and production Kubernetes experience, plus a track record of infrastructure buildouts and data centre partnerships.
HPC or GPU cluster exp (NVIDIA, InfiniBand, Lustre/Ceph) is ideally needed also.
Reporting to the CEO and Board, you’ll own;
- Tech strategy, architecture and the engineering roadmap
- Large-scale Kubernetes for distributed, high-throughput workloads
- Vendor, co-location and hardware procurement strategy
- CapEx/OpEx, GPU utilisation and platform uptime
- Hiring and scaling a top-tier infra and DevOps team
This is a genuine greenfield build that you'll own shape the platform and the team. I can confidently say this is a great opportunity for someone who wants to go in and create/build something that has huge potential.
Sound like you, or someone you know? Drop me a message