Remote Head of Cloud & Platform Engineering

RS Group; Corby; Remote; GBP 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension/retirement

Life assurance

Health plans

Holiday / paid time off

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work

Job summary

RS Group is seeking a Head of Cloud to set the strategic direction and lead the Cloud Competency Centre, Cloud Engineering and DevSecOps teams across AWS, Azure and SaaS platforms. You will ensure secure, scalable, cost-efficient cloud services aligned with business goals.

You will champion automation, platform engineering, and the migration of operating company estates into Group cloud environments, working with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, and FinOps to optimise costs and drive

Qualifications

• Proven senior leadership experience across Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or DevSecOps.
• Experience leading global teams and mentoring senior technical staff.
• Experience defining cloud strategy, operating models and roadmaps.
• Deep knowledge of AWS and Azure, including landing zones, automation, and security.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps and SDLC, CI/CD, secure pipelines.
• Experience migrating or modernising multi-entity estates.
• Strong operational service management, resilience and risk/compliance.
• Commercial awareness with budgets and cost optimisation.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate complex tech into outcomes.
• Experience managing relationships with cloud providers and partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the Group cloud strategy, operating model and roadmaps across AWS, Microsoft Azure and strategic SaaS platforms.
• Lead the Cloud Competency Centre, Cloud Engineering and DevSecOps capabilities, setting standards, guardrails, reusable patterns and clear service ownership.
• Ensure cloud platforms, landing zones and engineering services are secure, resilient, scalable, automated, observable and cost-effective.
• Drive infrastructure as code, policy as code, CI/CD, secure pipelines, test automation, golden paths and developer enablement.
• Lead the migration and modernisation of Operating Company infrastructure, applications and platforms into approved Group cloud environments.
• Maintain effective cloud operations, resilience, backup, disaster recovery, continuity testing and continual service improvement.
• Partner with the FinOps Lead to manage cloud budgets, consumption, commitments, allocation, forecasting and optimisation.
• Own strategic relationships with AWS, Microsoft, Managed Service Partners, systems integrators and specialist suppliers, holding them accountable for performance, value and knowledge transfer.
• Manage operational, technical, supplier, security and financial risks, supporting audit and assurance activity.
• Build trusted relationships across Architecture, Cyber Security, Product Engineering, Service Delivery, Finance, Procurement, Legal and Operating Company stakeholders.
• Develop a high-performing, inclusive and accountable global team through clear direction, coaching, succession planning and capability development.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Global teams

AWS

Azure

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Automation

Security

Budget management

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Landing zones

Job description

RS Group is seeking a Head of Cloud to set the strategic direction and lead the Cloud Competency Centre, Cloud Engineering and DevSecOps teams across AWS, Azure and SaaS platforms. You will ensure secure, scalable, cost-efficient cloud services aligned with business goals.

You will champion automation, platform engineering, and the migration of operating company estates into Group cloud environments, working with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security, and FinOps to optimise costs and drive