Cloud Platform Lead - Enterprise Cloud Services - OCI/Azure

Posted 2 days 2 hours ago by GL Global

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Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Job Description

The Cloud Platform Lead will provide technical leadership and operational oversight of an established enterprise cloud platform supporting critical services within a secure, high-availability environment.

This role is focused on ongoing platform management, operational resilience, secure service provisioning, and continuous improvement. It is not a cloud migration, transformation, or initial setup role.

The successful candidate will ensure stability, performance, security, and governance of cloud infrastructure operating within a 24/7 Real Time operational setting.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead operational management of a mature enterprise cloud platform

  • Provision and manage cloud services for internal users, application teams, and shared services

  • Ensure availability, resilience, and access control across critical systems

  • Oversee secure cloud operations in alignment with SecOps frameworks

  • Maintain and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code deployments

  • Manage patching, upgrades, change control, and life cycle management

  • Support incident response and service continuity in a high-availability environment

  • Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and service teams to maintain compliance and operational standards

Essential Skills & Experience

  • Demonstrable experience managing enterprise-scale cloud environments

  • Strong knowledge of IaaS and PaaS operational delivery

  • Implementing and governing Identity & Access Management (IAM) policies and enterprise landing zone models (network segmentation, guardrails, RBAC, policy enforcement)

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (eg, Terraform, ARM, BICEP)

  • Secure cloud operations within regulated or critical infrastructure environments

  • Experience supporting 24/7 production systems with strict uptime requirements

  • Strong understanding of identity, access management, and cloud governance

Preferred Platform: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

  • OCI Compute, Storage, and Networking

  • Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN), Routing, Security Lists

  • Identity & Access Management (IAM), Compartments, Policies

  • OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE)

  • Load Balancing and Traffic Management

  • Monitoring, Logging, and Observability services

  • OCI Vault and Key Management

  • Terraform automation for OCI environments

  • Enterprise landing zone architecture

Alternative Platforms Considered

  • Microsoft Azure

  • Amazon Web Services AWS

Bonus Skills

  • Experience with CNI services

  • Active or previous UK clearances:

    • SC (Security Check)

    • NPPV