Head of Platforms and Operations
6 days ago
Sunderland
Head of Platforms & Operations Salary: to be discussed Sunderland - onsite 3x per week Are you a leader with strong technical knowledge of the design and delivery of core platforms, as well as demonstrable experience managing key internal and external stakeholder relationships? Are you looking for a new opportunity to shape a growing team, challenging them to drive innovation? If so, apply now for this newly created role. The Head of Platforms & Operations will join a well-established business at a time of transformation, and will be instrumental in building a team that will design, deliver and support core platforms. We're looking for someone who can drive innovation and step outside of the status quo. If successful, you will be responsible for the following: • Strategic leadership - establish and deliver the strategic roadmap for the team, identifying new technologies and ways of working to achieve objectives, • Platform Management - build and operation of core platforms across infrastructure, storage, on-premise and cloud solutions (AWS, Azure), EUC, DevOps, • Solutions Architecture - lead a small team of solutions architects, ensuring frameworks and standards are applied, • Technical Services - lead a team of technical engineers providing engineering services across EUC, data platforms, Network infrastructure, M365, Cloud hosting etc, • Project Management - oversee delivery of key IT initiatives in line with governance standards, • Support - lead a disparate team of field engineers providing hands-on support across various sites, • Change leadership - you will manage a team through a significant period of change, so prior experience of this will be ideal, • Proven experience in platform engineering and IT operations, • Demonstrated success in leading teams through change, • Broad knowledge across technologies/practices including: Cloud, EUC, Storage, Collaboration Solutions, Networking, Data Platforms, DevOps, CI/CD and container orchestration If this sounds of interest, please apply today!