Head of Cloud & Platform Transformation

Wiltshire Police

Devizes

On-site

GBP 77,000 - 94,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Free on-site gym membership

Well-being support

Professional development

Job summary

Wiltshire Police is seeking a Head of Infrastructure & Platforms to lead the transformation of our technology foundations, ensuring secure, resilient and scalable platforms for modern policing. You will drive cloud modernisation, platform engineering, and AI-enabled services while building high-performing teams across on‑prem, private and public cloud environments.

As part of the DDaT Services leadership, you will set technical standards, govern risk, and collaborate with partners to deliver

Qualifications

Experience leading infrastructure, platform or cloud services in a complex technology environment.
Proven ability to lead large-scale infrastructure, cloud or platform transformation initiatives.
Strong understanding of platform resilience, availability, security, recoverability and operational risk management.
Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or equivalent cloud architecture certification.
ITIL 4 Managing Professional certification.
Relevant degree in IT, Engineering, or equivalent senior professional experience.

Responsibilities

Lead the strategy, roadmap and transformation of infrastructure and platforms across on-premises, private cloud and public cloud environments.
Drive cloud-smart modernisation and platform engineering practices that enable secure, scalable and sustainable digital services.
Lead infrastructure and platform engineering teams across networks, compute, storage, databases and communications technologies.
Ensure platforms are engineered for availability, resilience, security, recoverability and operational performance.
Establish and enforce technical standards, patterns and guardrails aligned to national policing policy, government standards and industry best practice.
Champion automation, cloud technologies and modern platform capabilities that improve service outcomes and reduce complexity.
Enable innovation, AI adoption and new digital services through flexible, secure and scalable platform foundations.
Provide senior leadership on platform risk, technology investment and future capability, working with internal and external partners to deliver strategic outcomes.