Job Description
The Cloud Platform Lead will provide technical leadership and operational oversight of an established enterprise cloud platform supporting critical services within a secure, high-availability environment.
This role is focused on ongoing platform management, operational resilience, secure service provisioning, and continuous improvement. It is not a cloud migration, transformation, or initial setup role.
The successful candidate will ensure stability, performance, security, and governance of cloud infrastructure operating within a 24/7 Real Time operational setting.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead operational management of a mature enterprise cloud platform
* Provision and manage cloud services for internal users, application teams, and shared services
* Ensure availability, resilience, and access control across critical systems
* Oversee secure cloud operations in alignment with SecOps frameworks
* Maintain and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code deployments
* Manage patching, upgrades, change control, and life cycle management
* Support incident response and service continuity in a high-availability environment
* Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and service teams to maintain compliance and operational standards
Essential Skills & Experience
* Demonstrable experience managing enterprise-scale cloud environments
* Strong knowledge of IaaS and PaaS operational delivery
* Implementing and governing Identity & Access Management (IAM) policies and enterprise landing zone models (network segmentation, guardrails, RBAC, policy enforcement)
* Experience with Infrastructure as Code (eg, Terraform, ARM, BICEP)
* Secure cloud operations within regulated or critical infrastructure environments
* Experience supporting 24/7 production systems with strict uptime requirements
* Strong understanding of identity, access management, and cloud governance
Preferred Platform: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
* OCI Compute, Storage, and Networking
* Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN), Routing, Security Lists
* Identity & Access Management (IAM), Compartments, Policies
* OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE)
* Load Balancing and Traffic Management
* Monitoring, Logging, and Observability services
* OCI Vault and Key Management
* Terraform automation for OCI environments
* Enterprise landing zone architecture
Alternative Platforms Considered
* Microsoft Azure
* Amazon Web Services AWS
Bonus Skills
* Experience with CNI services
* Active or previous UK clearances:
o SC (Security Check)
o NPPV