Head of Cloud & Platform

Come Make an Impact on Millions of Brazilians!

At Recarga Pay, we're on a mission to deliver the best payment experience for Brazilian consumers and small businesses by building a powerful digital ecosystem where the banked and unbanked connect, and where consumers and merchants have a one-stop shop for all their financial needs.

We serve over 10 million users and process more than USD 4 billion annually. We've been profitable since 2022 and operate our own credit business. We are an AI-first, 100% remote team, scaling in the rapidly changing Brazilian financial market.

Our goal? Deliver the best payment experience in Brazil for people and small businesses alike.

We value autonomy, ownership, and a bias for action. We're looking for people who are curious, hands-on, and driven by impact who want to solve real problems, work with strong teams, and rethink what's possible.

If you're ready to do your best work, at scale, with purpose, this is your place.

As the Head of Cloud & Platform, you will own the evolution, reliability, and efficiency of the company's entire cloud and platform ecosystem. Your mission is to build and scale a world-class cloud and developer platform that empowers engineering teams to deliver securely, reliably, and cost‑efficiently on AWS.

You will lead multiple squads covering Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, SRE, Dev Sec Ops , and Fin Ops, driving modernization, automation, and standardization across environments. Strategically, you will define the roadmap that aligns platform capabilities with business goals and compliance requirements, while tactically ensuring operational excellence, resilience, and scalability.

This role blends strategic leadership and technical depth, guiding senior engineering leaders, establishing architectural standards, championing reliability and cost efficiency, and partnering with Product, Security, and Compliance to ensure the platform supports rapid innovation in a regulated fintech context.

• Define and execute the Cloud and Platform strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, regulatory frameworks, and cost‑efficiency goals.
• Lead a multi‑disciplinary organization covering Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, Platform Engineering, and Dev Sec Ops , fostering collaboration and shared accountability for uptime, security, and performance.
• Drive modernization of infrastructure and delivery pipelines, enabling a unified, automated, and compliant cloud environment.
• Partner with executive leadership to define scalable operating models, balancing autonomy for product squads with standardized guardrails and golden paths.
• Establish a long‑term architectural vision for cloud services, platform frameworks, and developer enablement tools.
• Sponsor AI‑assisted engineering adoption to enhance developer productivity, reduce toil, and accelerate delivery.
• Serve as the ultimate technical and strategic authority for AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, Observability, and Reliability practices across the organization.
• Oversee the design, scalability, and governance of the AWS multi‑account organization, enforcing security, compliance, and cost policies.
• Lead the definition and implementation of multi‑region, multi‑environment architectures ensuring reliability, latency optimization, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Institutionalize well‑architected principles and drive continuous improvement programs based on regular audits.
• Evolve network and connectivity architectures to meet scaling, compliance, and availability goals.
• Own identity, access, and secrets management lifecycle.
• Oversee monitoring and observability frameworks, implementing standards and unified dashboards across all services.
• Ensure SLO‑driven operations, with well‑defined SLIs, error budgets, and automated incident management loops.
• Lead resilience and reliability engineering practices.
• Build and scale the company's Internal Developer Platform, empowering teams with self‑service capabilities.
• Define golden paths, opinionated tooling, and reusable infrastructure modules.
• Ensure trunk‑based development, progressive delivery, automated rollback, and health/SLO‑gated deployments are embedded into CI/CD…