Head of Infrastructure - London, United Kingdom - Resource Solutions.

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Head of Infrastructure 12 months London - hybrid/flexible working £1200-£1400 per day


Head of Infrastructure

12 months

London - hybrid/flexible working

£1200-£1400 per day
You will lead the adoption and maturing of agile delivery practices by the Infrastructure Engineers - and ensure the development of the technical engineering capabilities necessary to deliver and maintain the required infrastructure products


Key Responsibilities:


Strategy Accountability - Lead the definition and evolution of an Infrastructure Engineering strategy and align to the wider divisional strategic roadmaps, and industry standard best practices to ensure our infrastructure products & practices are enablers to the wider business strategic goals.


Operational Management & Governance - Accountability of Infrastructure Engineering operations, ensuring the Infrastructure Products are reliable, accessible, and compliant to the business Technology & InfoSec Risk Management frameworks.

Management of Infrastructure Engineering costs, optimised for maximum value to support business sustainability & growth.


Ways of Working - Leading organisational consistency of DevSecOps supporting a common orchestration pipeline so that complexity is reduced, enabling enterprise efficiency, scalability, and sustainability.

Driving and role modelling agile mindset and methodology, embedding a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement across the infrastructure engineering community, promoting the reduction of hand-offs and automation to increase velocity and quality.


Resourcing Strategy - Define the Infrastructure Engineering resourcing strategy that incorporates a hybrid sourcing model (in/outsource, augment) so product teams are resourced appropriately with skilled resources, which can be flexed to support business demand.

Promote and enable Infrastructure Engineering skills growth, to advance and retain our in-house infrastructure engineering specialist capabilities.


Industry Trends - Have visibility of emerging Infrastructure Engineering trends and assess them to determine suitability and alignment within the business so we continually innovate our infrastructure products, ensuring our roadmaps incorporate the adoption of suitable emerging trends.


Key Skills/experience:


  • Extensive knowledge and experience of IT industry standards, IT governance
  • Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, budgeting, and risk management
  • Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, API, open data, micro services, event driven IT and predictive analytics and business intelligence/analytics
  • Agile methodologies and product management (incl. Infrastructure Products)
  • Infrastructure technologies, including Data, Voice, Identity Management, Storage, Mainframe, and databases
  • Experience in running agile infrastructure engineering teams
  • Experience of deploying Platform Engineering capabilities
  • Background in leading technology teams through major transformation
  • Indepth understanding of agile and DevSecOps methodologies, technical understanding of products and their life cycles, and uptodate knowledge on industry standards and best practices
  • Highly collaborative and able to work across an organisation and drive direction
  • Ability to motivate in a team orientated collaborative environment
  • Customercentric focus to drive business value
**This is a unique opportunity to help drive modern ways of deploying technology within a large organisation
- don't hesitate to apply**Job ID 10337

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