Head of Cloud Platforms
5 days ago
London
Head of Cloud Platforms Salary: up to £95,000Contract: Permanent We are working on behalf of our client to recruit a Head of Cloud Platforms. This is a senior leadership role sitting within the IT department, reporting to the Director of Infrastructure & Operations. The Role You will lead the Cloud Platform and Integration teams, taking ownership of the strategic direction and day-to-day management of cloud platforms (AWS & Azure), DevOps tooling, and systems integration (middleware). You will define the long-term technical roadmap, oversee CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and ensure platforms are secure, reliable, and cost-effective.Working closely with software development, infrastructure, cyber security, and business teams, you will align platform engineering with the wider digital strategy, drive automation, and act as a technical leader and mentor across their team. Key Responsibilities: • Lead and manage the Cloud Platform and Integration teams, ensuring effective collaboration and delivery, • Define and implement cloud architecture, automation strategies, and CI/CD pipelines across AWS, Azure, and M365, • Drive adoption of IaC and automated deployment processes, • Oversee systems integration architecture, ensuring compatibility and performance across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, • Lead incident response, disaster recovery planning, and BCP/DR testing, • Monitor platform performance and establish KPIs and SLAs for availability, security, and uptime, • Lead security audits, risk assessments, and vulnerability management, working alongside Cyber Security teams, • Mentor senior technical leads and support their professional development, • Engage with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, • Deep knowledge of AWS (EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS) and Microsoft Azure, • Experience managing and delivering within multi-cloud environments, • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices (e.g. Jenkins, Bitbucket, Terraform), • Experience deploying and maintaining Linux systems (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Amazon Linux), • Knowledge of containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes, • Experience with middleware technologies, including AWS SQS/SNS and API Gateway, • Scripting skills in Bash and/or Python, • Proven experience managing technical teams and providing clear direction