Location: Leeds, England
Job Type: Full Time
Employment Type: Permanent
Lead the Cloud. Build What’s Next.
We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Manager to take ownership of our cloud infrastructure strategy, operational resilience, and technical transformation in Leeds.
This role is designed for someone who can operate at both strategic and technical levels. You’ll work with senior leadership to shape cloud direction while leading engineers responsible for building secure, reliable, and scalable platforms.
If you’re ready to move beyond keeping systems running and want to influence how technology evolves, this is an opportunity to make a visible impact.
Your Role
- Own the strategy, architecture, performance, and reliability of enterprise cloud infrastructure.
- Lead cloud operations across Microsoft Azure, AWS, or hybrid environments.
- Develop and execute cloud migration and modernization roadmaps.
- Lead infrastructure engineering teams and establish clear technical standards.
- Design and maintain highly available, resilient, and scalable cloud environments.
- Oversee cloud networking, compute, storage, identity, monitoring, and security services.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code and automation using technologies such as Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Establish cloud governance, security controls, access policies, and operational standards.
- Lead disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and resilience initiatives.
- Monitor cloud performance, availability, capacity, and expenditure.
- Identify opportunities to optimize cloud usage and control infrastructure costs.
- Manage major incidents, technical escalations, and root-cause investigations.
- Work with cybersecurity, engineering, product, and business teams on strategic technology initiatives.
- Manage cloud suppliers, technology partners, budgets, and third-party services.
- Present cloud strategy, risks, investment requirements, and performance insights to senior leadership.
- Coach and develop cloud engineers while building a culture of automation and continuous improvement.
What You’ll Bring
- Significant experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud engineering, infrastructure management, or technology leadership.
- Strong experience with Azure, AWS, or hybrid cloud environments.
- Proven experience leading cloud infrastructure or engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, IAM, security, monitoring, and resilience.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience leading cloud migration and infrastructure modernization programmes.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, compliance, and risk management.
- Experience with cloud cost management and optimization.
- Strong knowledge of disaster recovery, high availability, backup, and business continuity.
- Experience managing budgets, suppliers, contracts, and technology partners.
- Excellent leadership, communication, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management skills.
- Relevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS/Azure Administrator, ITIL, or equivalent are desirable.
- Eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.
Why This Role Stands Out
Strategic Influence: Help define the organisation’s long-term cloud direction.
Modern Technology: Work with cloud-native infrastructure, automation, DevOps, and emerging technologies.
Leadership Opportunity: Build and develop a high-performing cloud infrastructure function.
Visible Impact: Your decisions will directly influence reliability, security, scalability, and technology investment.
Career Progression: A strong platform for progression toward Head of Cloud, Head of Infrastructure, or Director of Technology.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected under applicable UK legislation.
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Pay: From £76,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Canteen
- Company events
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
