Head of Platform

simplesurance is a leading insurtech company specializing in the seamless integration of innovative insurance technology into the digital workflows of business partners across diverse industries. Founded in 2012 and part of Allianz since 2022, simplesurance plays a pivotal role in enhancing customer experiences in fast growing ecosystems like banking, automotive, e-commerce, and travel.

An international team of over 350 technology experts from more than 30 countries develops scalable B2B and B2C solutions — ranging from robust APIs to fully integrated service portals and customer-facing platforms.

With its headquarters in Berlin and teams across Munich, Paris, Lisbon, Dubai, and Beirut, simplesurance is driving the global transformation of digital insurance solutions.

We’re looking for a Head of Platform to join Monika’s Team and make a real impact! Ready to take on new challenges? As part of our team, you’ll be contributing to cutting‑edge projects that are shaping the future of our company and the industry.

At simplesurance, we don’t just embrace change – we drive it. With a strong commitment to innovation, resilience, and growth, we continuously challenge the status quo while having fun along the way, true to our motto: "Never Stop Playing".

As a Head of Platform at simplesurance, you’ll experience firsthand how technology and innovation work to fuel our growth.

We invite you to check out some of the tools and projects that drive our work:

• Tech Share:
  See the tools we use to power our business.
• Git Hub Repository:
  Explore our open-source projects.
• Integration Overview:
  Get a look at how our integrations work.

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• Lead, grow, and mentor a platform engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, high ownership, continuous improvement, and psychological safety.
• Define and drive the platform engineering strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives, product delivery needs, and long‑term scalability requirements.
• Own the design, evolution, and operation of the internal developer platform, enabling product engineering teams to ship faster and more reliably through self‑service capabilities and reduced cognitive load.
• Establish and continuously raise the bar for platform engineering standards: infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, observability, incident readiness, security posture, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate closely with Architecture, Backend, Security, and Product teams to ensure the platform reliably supports current and future engineering needs across the organisation.
• Own multi‑cloud infrastructure strategy and decisions, balancing cost efficiency, resilience, and operational simplicity across production environments.
• Ensure platform reliability and operational excellence through robust incident management practices, SLO/SLA ownership, and a strong on‑call culture.
• Contribute to organisation‑wide architecture and technology decisions, representing platform engineering concerns and long‑term maintainability at the leadership level.
• Balance delivery priorities with sustainable engineering practices, proactive technical debt reduction, and platform health.
• Support the professional growth of platform engineers through coaching, mentorship, structured feedback, and clear career development pathways.
• Help foster a culture of adaptability, cross‑team collaboration, and continuous learning as technologies, scale, and organisational needs evolve.

• 8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles, with a strong technical foundation and systems‑thinking mindset across distributed systems and cloud‑native architectures.
• Demonstrated experience in technical leadership — as a team lead, engineering manager, or tech lead — with a proven ability to grow and mentor engineers and build high‑ownership engineering cultures.
• Experience leading platform migrations and modernization efforts, such as VM to Kubernetes or monolith to microservices, and building or evolving internal developer platforms.
• Multi‑cloud production experience (AWS + at least one other), including capacity…