Platform Operations Manager
Information Commissioner's Office
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Huntingdon • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £70,000 - £75,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloud
About the role
- Lead platform strategy and delivery - managing the hybrid infrastructure roadmap, balancing in-house and managed service capabilities, and embedding automation-first, resilient design from the outset.
- Ensure operational reliability and service-aware operations - overseeing Site Reliability Engineering, uptime, performance, and proactive observability to reduce operational toil and enable self-healing platforms.
- Develop people and partnerships - leading and coaching a high-performing team, building in-house capability, and managing relationships with strategic partners to drive service improvement.
- Drive continuous improvement and transformation - championing DevOps, automation, and modern Cloud practices, identifying opportunities to reduce cost and complexity, and fostering a culture of learning, experimentation, and safe challenge.
Requirements
- Degree in a technology or computing discipline
- Extensive experience leading hybrid platform operations (cloud/on-prem)
- Proven track record of leading SRE, DevOps and infrastructure automation practices
- Experience managing network and platform engineering teams
- Strong working knowledge of platform observability and telemetry tools
- Experience managing outsourced and in-house technical teams
- Understanding of ITIL processes (esp. Change, Incident, Problem)
- Familiarity with containerised environments and Infrastructure as Code
- Relevant professional certifications (e.g. Azure, AWS, ITIL, SRE) - desirable
Benefits
- Full private healthcare with no excess
- 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
- A flexible working culture
- Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 6%
- Life Assurance at eight times your salary
- Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
- Bonus Scheme
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
hybrid platform operationsSite Reliability EngineeringDevOpsinfrastructure automationplatform observabilitytelemetry toolscontainerised environmentsInfrastructure as Code
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingrelationship managementcontinuous improvementtransformationculture of learningexperimentationsafe challenge
Certifications
AzureAWSITILSRE