Head of Hybrid Cloud Services: Scale Gov Cloud & Platform

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP); Manchester; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the Digital Technology Services Directorate seeks a strategic leader to head Hybrid Cloud Services in Blackpool or Manchester. You will design, build and operate the department’s hyper-scale cloud hosting environments and on-premises hosting, partnering with senior colleagues across DWP Digital and other government bodies.

You will lead a ~200-strong team delivering hosting products and services, ensuring secure, automated, and cost-effective platforms

Responsibilities

• Providing strategic leadership and management for Hybrid Cloud Services.
• Providing thought leadership and setting vision and direction for Hybrid Cloud Services product and engineering teams.
• Working closely with tooling and platform owners and architects across DWP Digital to ensure a consistent, secure, automated and cost-effective platform approach for internal consumers of services.
• Identifying underlying infrastructure service requirements to support business platform capability.
• Continuous performance improvement and live operation of Hybrid Cloud ensuring the provision of DWP services.
• Delivering a portfolio of services for the wider DWP business to consume, with service descriptions, OLAs, with appropriate contracts in place with 3rd party providers as required.
• Responsible for the £80m Profit and Loss (P&L) portfolio of services across Hybrid Cloud Services.
• Working collaboratively with other functions and teams to deploy and operate our services and systems
• Ensuring internal capability and professionalism is continually developed and aligned to DWP strategy, Government standards, industry best practice, standards and policies.
• Driving continuous evolution and product development by leveraging technological advances, innovation and best practise. Tests and benchmarks services against world class comparators.
• Collaborating across DWP (and other Government departments as appropriate).

Job description

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the Digital Technology Services Directorate seeks a strategic leader to head Hybrid Cloud Services in Blackpool or Manchester. You will design, build and operate the department’s hyper-scale cloud hosting environments and on-premises hosting, partnering with senior colleagues across DWP Digital and other government bodies.

You will lead a ~200-strong team delivering hosting products and services, ensuring secure, automated, and cost-effective platforms