Head of Cloud Engineering – 12m FTC

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United Kingdom

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1 day ago

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Job Description

Head of Cloud Engineering – 12m FTC

DC Thomson

• Own the architecture, engineering, and lifecycle of Brightsolid's cloud platforms and services. • Lead Cloud Engineering and Network teams ensuring delivery of high-quality, scalable, secure infrastructure • Drive engineering excellence through automation, standardisation, and modern operating models • Maintain full accountability for multi-tenant cloud platforms, both internal and customer-facing • Lead the transition from legacy environments to open-source platforms (Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes) • Ensure platforms meet defined SLAs, resilience, compliance, and security requirements • Lead network engineering and datacentre strategy across all Brightsolid facilities • Ensure high-availability, resilient, and high-performance connectivity and infrastructure • Own disaster recovery, capacity planning, and infrastructure lifecycle management • Own the strategy, architecture, and operation of all engineering and business-critical tooling across the group • Provide full lifecycle ownership of key enterprise platforms, including: - ITSM and Service Management platforms (e.g. ServiceNow or equivalent) - CRM and customer engagement platforms (e.g. Salesforce or equivalent) - Monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms - Automation, CI/CD, and DevOps tooling - Identity, access management, and security tooling • Define and enforce standards for tooling rationalisation, reducing duplication and driving platform consistency across the organisation • Lead the transition from fragmented tools towards a cohesive, platform-led operating model, where tooling is: - API-driven - Automated-first - Integrated into engineering workflows and service delivery • Work cross-functionally with Product, Sales, and Customer Success teams to support solution development and delivery • Build and lead high-performing Cloud Engineering and Network teams • Define and manage KPIs across platform availability, performance, cost, and customer outcomes • Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement

Job Requirements

  • Proven experience leading, mentoring and developing high-performing engineering teams, including direct people leadership, performance management, team structure and succession planning.
  • Strong experience building a culture of automation, accountability, operational discipline and continuous improvement.
  • Experience working within a service provider or managed service environment delivering high-availability services in a 24x7 operational context.
  • Strong understanding of multi-datacentre architecture, service provider internet services, WAN connectivity, cloud infrastructure and operational support models.
  • Experience owning change management, problem management, SLA reporting and KPI reporting for engineering operations.
  • Strong understanding of security technologies and the role of security, compliance and resilience in platform operations.
  • Experience working closely with service operations, security operations, product management, sales and customers.
  • Eligible to work in the United Kingdom.
  • Experience with OpenStack networking and Linux-based networking technologies.
  • Experience with modern network security approaches.
  • Experience working directly with Cisco, Canonical, NVIDIA and other strategic technology partners or service providers.
  • Relevant certifications such as CCNP, RHCE or equivalent.

Benefits

  • 34 days holiday
  • Health Cash Plan
  • excellent Pension
  • competitive salary
  • many more staff discounts and benefits

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