Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid
Head of Platforms About Last Mile Solutions With over 340.000 charging stations and 1.6 million charging cards, we are active in 22 countries. Last Mile Solutions is Europe’s largest independent e-mobility platform. Our …
Skills: Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, Database Engineering
Sign up with Clera and we'll reach out the moment a role actually fits you — no more spraying applications into the void.
The Head of Platforms is responsible for the stability, security, and scalability of the core platform, infrastructure, and reliability. This role leads the Platform, Database, and DevSecOps teams to build an internal developer platform and modernize the SaaS/PaaS environment.
Requires 8-12+ years of experience in platform or SRE leadership within scaling SaaS/PaaS environments. Candidates must have a strong background in modern cloud infrastructure, DevSecOps practices, and the ability to lead high-performing engineering teams.
With over 340.000 charging stations and 1.6 million charging cards, we are active in 22 countries. Last Mile Solutions is Europe’s largest independent e-mobility platform. Our mission is simplifying the energy transition and creating a sustainable world by turning energy into value.
Your role
As Head of Platform, you are the owner of our core platform, infrastructure and reliability. You ensure that the foundation on which all products run is stable, secure and ready to scale.
You report to the CPTO and work closely with Product and Data teams. Your responsibility is to stabilise and modernise the platform, embed DevSecOps and Platform Engineering ways of working and build an organisation that can operate and evolve a high-scale SaaS/PaaS environment with confidence.
You lead the teams that run our platform including cloud infrastructure, security, Database engineering, and core platform services and create the conditions for them to deliver a predictable reliable, performant and scalable Platform to the Software Engineering teams. You will further develop our platform engineering capability and from that build an internal developer platform.
Stabilise and evolve the platform
Take end-to-end ownership for platform stability, performance and availability.
Reduce incidents and escalations through clear ownership, monitoring and incident practices.
Establish and maintain SLOs/SLAs for key services, with transparent reporting to stakeholders.
Create a predictable release and change management process that balances speed and safety.
Lead Platform, Database and DevSecOps teams
Build and develop high-performing platform, Database teams with clear mandates.
Define target state architecture and build a transition path with clear value drivers and ROI calculation for management
Clarify ownership boundaries and interfaces between platform and product teams.
Coach leaders and senior engineers on reliability, automation and modern platform engineering practices.
Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and learning from incidents.
Set guardrails on architecture, security and ways of working, while giving teams autonomy to make day-to-day technical decisions within those boundaries so they can move fast but stay aligned.
Provide strong people leadership, including 1:1s, performance reviews, career development, team health, hiring, onboarding and capacity planning across Platform, Database and DevSecOps.
Build modern, automated infrastructure
Lead the evolution of our infrastructure towards a modern, automated and secure setup.
Drive infrastructure-as-code, configuration management and standardised environments.
Work with the Head of Engineering and CPTO on the cloud and hosting strategy, ensuring a pragmatic, cost-aware approach.
Reduce technical and operational debt in a deliberate, stepwise way.
Enhance observability, reliability and security
Further Progress strong observability capability (logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting) across the platform.
Ensure incident response, problem management and post-mortem practices are embedded.
Partner with Security and Compliance to implement security baselines and guardrails by design.
Make reliability and security non-negotiable parts of how teams build and operate.
Accelerate AI-native engineering
Ensure the platform, infrastructure and tooling are ready for AI-native engineering practices.
Support teams in adopting AI tools in build, test, deploy and operate workflows, with proper governance.
Work with Data and Product teams to enable data and AI platform patterns on top of a robust core platform.
Align with business and partner value
Translate platform and infrastructure priorities into clear business impact.
Communicate trade-offs, risks and dependencies transparently with stakeholders.
Ensure that platform investments increase partner trust, reduce downtime and improve time-to-market.
The platform is stable and predictable, with reducing incidents
Clear SLOs/SLAs and observability are in place; reliability and performance are transparently measured.
Releases are frequent, controlled and low-risk; change does not equal instability.
Infrastructure and core services are automated, documented and consistent across environments.
Platform, Database and DevSecOps teams operate with clear ownership, autonomy and accountability.
Product teams can deliver faster because the platform is reliable, well-documented and easy to consume.
AI-ready patterns, tools and guardrails are in place, enabling safer and faster adoption of AI in engineering.
8–12+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, SRE or related engineering leadership roles within scaling SaaS/PaaS environments.
Proven track record stabilising and evolving complex, high-load platforms.
Strong background in modern infrastructure (cloud, containers, automation, networking, security).
Hands-on experience embedding DevOps/DevSecOps ways of working (CI/CD, ownership, on-call, reliability practices).
Experience with observability stacks and reliability engineering (SRE, SLOs, error budgets).
Ability to balance modernisation with operational continuity; you know when to rebuild and when to harden.
Clear, decisive leadership style with focus on accountability, development and collaboration.
Strong stakeholder management skills; able to explain complex technical topics in business terms.
Experience guiding organisations through modernisation and scale-up phases is a significant advantage.
Fluency in English.
Brings stability and clarity into complex, high-load technical environments.
Thinks in systems and end-to-end flows rather than individual components.
Builds teams and platforms that can scale 3x–4x sustainably.
Takes a pragmatic, evolutionary approach to modernisation rather than big-bang rewrites.
Drives automation and simplification; removes manual work and operational friction.
Guides teams confidently through incidents, change and ambiguity.
Empowering Connections
Exploring with purpose
Owning our impact
Join a company simplifying the energy transition as part of Europe’s leading EV charging and energy transaction platform.
Work alongside a team of driven and curious professionals.
Have the opportunity to make a significant platform and reliability impact in a fast-paced, high-growth organisation.
We offer an attractive compensation package, including:
Attractive salary
Bonus scheme
Pension scheme (partly covered by the employer)
38 days off (25 vacation days plus 13 ATV days)
Daily lunch served in our in-house bistro
Ready to make a difference?
Apply now! If you have any questions, please reach out to recruitment at [email protected].
A VOG (Certificate of Conduct)/Screening will be part of the recruitment procedure.
Offering the most complete, independent EV charging & smart energy management platform for your e-Mobility business.
Last Mile Solutions is dedicated to simplifying the energy transition and leading the journey towards a sustainable world. As Europe’s leading platform for EV charging and energy transaction management, Last Mile Solutions offers an independent, scalable, and hardware-agnostic solution for business worldwide. Our platform connects over 324,000 charge points directly, supports more than 850,000 roaming points and processes more than 4.5 million transactions monthly in 22 countries. It provides full service for Charge Point Operators (CPOs) and e-Mobility Service Providers (eMSPs), offering end-to-end solutions for billing, payments, and smart charging. Our platform supports a multilingual experience and seamlessly integrates with APIs for core workflow automation. Turning Energy into Value.
Offices: Zeemansstraat 11, Rotterdam, 3016 CN, NL · ul. Roganzińskiego 6, Graffit House, Kraków, 31-559, PL · Unter den Linden 21, Berlin, 10117, DE · 88, Avenue Charles de Gaulle, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France 92200, FR · 1 The Sanctuary, London, SW1P3JT, GB
Offering the most complete, independent EV charging & smart energy management platform for your e-Mobility business.
Last Mile Solutions is dedicated to simplifying the energy transition and leading the journey towards a sustainable world. As Europe’s leading platform for EV charging and energy transaction management, Last Mile Solutions offers an independent, scalable, and hardware-agnostic solution for business worldwide. Our platform connects over 324,000 charge points directly, supports more than 850,000 roaming points and processes more than 4.5 million transactions monthly in 22 countries. It provides full service for Charge Point Operators (CPOs) and e-Mobility Service Providers (eMSPs), offering end-to-end solutions for billing, payments, and smart charging. Our platform supports a multilingual experience and seamlessly integrates with APIs for core workflow automation. Turning Energy into Value.
Offices: Zeemansstraat 11, Rotterdam, 3016 CN, NL · ul. Roganzińskiego 6, Graffit House, Kraków, 31-559, PL · Unter den Linden 21, Berlin, 10117, DE · 88, Avenue Charles de Gaulle, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France 92200, FR · 1 The Sanctuary, London, SW1P3JT, GB
