Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. In 2025, Lyst joined Zozo, operators of Zozotown, the leading fashion e-commerce platform in Japan. This partnership marks a bold new era for Lyst, as we accelerate our vision and work together to transform the future of fashion shopping through AI and technology.
At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better choices and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper.
The Role
As Head of Infrastructure at Lyst, you will own the foundational technology that powers our global fashion platform. Reporting to the VP of Data & Infrastructure, you will lead a 5-person org covering Platform Engineering and IT Support. You will own the strategy and and delivery of foundational technology which enables our “secure, stable, operable & compliant” strategic pillar.
This is a key role for Lyst—offering the opportunity for the successful candidate to have high impact across the whole business, full strategic ownership of the infrastructure roadmap, and the autonomy to make a difference.
The role will hit a sweet spot for you if you are happy to dive into a PR or architectural review, but your primary focus is unblocking the team and setting strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Roadmap: Set the technical roadmap for delivering on platform stability, security, and smooth internal IT operations.
- Platform-as-a-Product: Own the design and operation of our foundational infrastructure (AWS, EKS, CI/CD, Observability) with a focus on developer experience and self-service.
- Security & Compliance: Oversee the technology building blocks required to deliver our wider cybersecurity roadmap.
- People Leadership: Manage and mentor a high-performing team of experts, fostering a culture of autonomy, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Operational Excellence: Lead vendor management, financial budgeting for cloud spend, and incident management workflows.
Requirements
- Leadership: Proven experience in leading high impact infrastructure / DevOps teams in a scaled cloud environment.
- Tech Stack: Deep proficiency with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform/IaC, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strategic: Ability to balance "keeping the lights on" with long-term strategic improvements.
- Communication: Comfortable managing senior stakeholders and translating complex infra needs into business impact.
- Security: Hands-on experience implementing security frameworks and data compliance.
Benefits
- Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home.
- Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst’s holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
- Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss.
- Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service.
- Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start.
- Training Allowance: We’re big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources.
- Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People’s Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution.
- Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You’ll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses.
- Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them.
- Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work.
- Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more.
