IT Director – Fixed Term Contract – 6 months – Potential to go to permanent
A growing international technology business is seeking a senior technology leader to oversee engineering capability, operational excellence and platform reliability.
This is a strategic leadership role with responsibility for cloud and infrastructure services, DevOps, integrations, platform operations and technology delivery across a complex customer-facing environment.
Reporting into senior global leadership, the role will play a key part in translating technology strategy into regional execution, whilst ensuring platforms remain scalable, secure, resilient and aligned to long term business objectives.
Key responsibilities
- Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary technology function across cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, integrations and platform operations
- Drive operational excellence across large scale customer-facing technology platforms
- Own cloud infrastructure, platform resilience, observability, release management and CI/CD capability
- Oversee integration capability and support the evolution toward scalable and reusable platform architecture
- Ensure high availability, security, performance and reliability across 24×7 operational environments
- Lead incident management, service improvement and operational governance across technology services
- Partner closely with Product, Architecture and regional leadership teams to align technology delivery with strategic objectives
- Drive engineering capability uplift, leadership development and continuous improvement across the technology organisation
- Manage technology budgets, vendors, cloud spend and operational investment priorities
About you
We are keen to speak with senior technology leaders who bring experience across:
- Cloud platforms, ideally AWS
- DevOps and modern engineering practices
- Platform engineering and infrastructure operations
- CI/CD, observability and operational tooling
- Database and high availability environments
- Large scale SaaS or enterprise technology platforms
- Complex, regulated or highly operational environments
The successful individual will be a collaborative and commercially aware leader, capable of operating across both strategic and operational priorities within a complex international environment.
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A growing international technology business is seeking a senior technology leader to oversee engineering capability, operational excellence and platform reliability.
This is a strategic leadership role with responsibility for cloud and infrastructure services, DevOps, integrations, platform operations and technology delivery across a complex customer-facing environment.
Reporting into senior global leadership, the role will play a key part in translating technology strategy into regional execution, whilst ensuring platforms remain scalable, secure, resilient and aligned to long term business objectives.
Key responsibilities
- Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary technology function across cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, integrations and platform operations
- Drive operational excellence across large scale customer-facing technology platforms
- Own cloud infrastructure, platform resilience, observability, release management and CI/CD capability
- Oversee integration capability and support the evolution toward scalable and reusable platform architecture
- Ensure high availability, security, performance and reliability across 24×7 operational environments
- Lead incident management, service improvement and operational governance across technology services
- Partner closely with Product, Architecture and regional leadership teams to align technology delivery with strategic objectives
- Drive engineering capability uplift, leadership development and continuous improvement across the technology organisation
- Manage technology budgets, vendors, cloud spend and operational investment priorities
About you
We are keen to speak with senior technology leaders who bring experience across:
- Cloud platforms, ideally AWS
- DevOps and modern engineering practices
- Platform engineering and infrastructure operations
- CI/CD, observability and operational tooling
- Database and high availability environments
- Large scale SaaS or enterprise technology platforms
- Complex, regulated or highly operational environments
The successful individual will be a collaborative and commercially aware leader, capable of operating across both strategic and operational priorities within a complex international environment.
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