Chief Platform & Cloud Operations Leader

Janus Henderson Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus opportunity

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Janus Henderson Group in London seeks a Global Head of Infrastructure & Cloud Operations to lead platform engineering, infrastructure and operations across enterprise-scale cloud and data initiatives. You will own availability, resilience and service excellence while shaping a self-service AI/ data platform.

You will partner with the CTO and Technology Leadership Team to scale Budapest as an insourced hub, drive automation, and manage cost and risk across global technology services.

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience building or operating enterprise-scale cloud, data or AI platforms and mission-critical infrastructure services.
• Demonstrated success turning infrastructure, cloud, data or AI capabilities into reusable, self-service platforms that accelerate engineering and business teams.
• Deep working knowledge of Microsoft Azure, modern data platforms, DevOps, automation, infrastructure as code and AI-assisted operations.
• Experience owning enterprise network and telephony, end-user computing, production support, IT service management and core services.
• Proven accountability for availability, resilience, major incident response, service quality and cost at enterprise scale.
• Proven ability to build or scale an insourced delivery hub with strong leadership.

Responsibilities

• Oversee shared technology services that power the business and build platforms enabling AI, data and business-embedded teams.
• Ensure reliability and performance of infrastructure, cloud platforms, end-user tech, and operational services.
• Transform infrastructure into modern platform capability with scalable, self-service cloud foundations for faster, safer tool delivery.
• Lead Heads of Unified Communications, Client Technology, Production Support, Service Management, Core Services, and Platform Engineering.
• Drive automation and AI-assisted tooling to raise quality while controlling costs.

Skills

Senior leadership

Azure

DevOps

Security collaboration

Budget ownership

Executive communication

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Medallion architecture

Job description

Janus Henderson Group in London seeks a Global Head of Infrastructure & Cloud Operations to lead platform engineering, infrastructure and operations across enterprise-scale cloud and data initiatives. You will own availability, resilience and service excellence while shaping a self-service AI/ data platform.

You will partner with the CTO and Technology Leadership Team to scale Budapest as an insourced hub, drive automation, and manage cost and risk across global technology services.