Head of Hybrid Cloud Services Department for Work & Pensions
Reference
1641678
Number of vacancies
1
Location
Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Blackpool, Sheffield or London
Salary
Circa £105,000
Work hours
37
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
Civil Service pension schemes may be available for successful candidates.
Closing date
12 August 2019
Job description
Head of Hybrid Cloud Services
Location – Manchester or Newcastle. Although Leeds, Blackpool, Sheffield or London can be considered, but will require frequent travel to Manchester.
The Head of Hybrid Cloud Services will play a critical role in design, build and operation of the Department’s strategic hosting environments in hyper-scale public Cloud providers as well as its on premises hosting infrastructure. They will do this in partnership with senior colleagues within DWP and other Government Departments.
They will lead the Hybrid Cloud Services function of circa 100 people which is focussed on providing portfolio of hosting products and services to support the transformation of DWP applications underpinning the delivery of the Department’s services to 22 million customers and 85,000 employees.
The successful candidate must demonstrate the following key skills and experience:
– Extensive experience of design and engineering techniques to support mission critical data at high availability and secure management
– Extensive technical understanding of the Cloud platforms to be able to deal with escalations and make judgement calls to support the team
– Extensive experience in design, delivery and support of Cloud infrastructure services, with real-world experience of delivery into Public and Private sector organisations
– Experience of transitioning cloud native and legacy IT services into cloud and moving IT services between providers
– Experience of managing multiple disciplinary agile teams consisting of internal teams and 3rd parties
– Deep grasp of Cloud and Datacentre technology coupled with a background of delivery complex programmes
– Expert level knowledge and successful track record of design, build and operations of Cloud and Datacentre technologies in large scale organisations
– Strong knowledge of DevOps methodologies and tooling that are needed to manage modern estate infrastructure.
– Effective technology transformation background and demonstrable use of Agile practices as part of infrastructure build
– Ability to work in complex, multi stakeholder environments with credible leadership of change and Technology expertise. Effective communication at multiple levels including business leaders, C-level management and engineers
– Focus and aptitude for delivering business value, coupled with strategic thinking, robust planning skills and financial management ability
Success profiles – Behaviours
Leadership
Communicating and influencing
Working together
Delivering at pace
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