Job Title:

Head of Cloud Engineering

Reporting to:

Chief Digital Officer

Location:

Ash (Kent) or Newbury (Berkshire) - Hybrid working with 2-3 days in the office per week

Hours of Work:

37.5 per week

Core hours 10am - 4.00pm with 1 hour for Lunch

Reward Package:

- 25 days annual holiday + Birthday off in addition and option to buy/sell additional 5 days

- Growth Opportunities – Continuous learning and career development opportunities

-Company Pension Scheme

-Private medical Cover

-Life Assurance

-Extensive non-taxable benefits

THE ROLE

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Industry Leading Secure and recover arm, as the Head of Cloud Engineering, supporting the next phase of Cyberfort’s growth. You’ll be joining a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning with expert peers in Solutions Architecture, Cloud Engineering and Pre-Sales Design. We work across a number of sectors with a diverse client base. We aim to create an environment where everyone can reach their full potential. We work together, we are passionate, creative, and we embrace difference.

As a key member of the Secure and Recover Senior Leadership Team, the Head of Cloud Engineering plays a critical role in the design, build, and delivery of market-leading IT services for both our customers and our internal teams. Reporting directly to the Chief Digital Officer (CDO), this role works cross-functionally across the organisation to ensure we consistently deliver best-in-class technology capabilities that support our growth, innovation, and service excellence.

This role will suit a results-driven thought leader and technical evangelist with a track record of turning concepts into products and leading development with service excellence in cybersecurity and cloud services. Expert at integrating cutting-edge technologies to build secure, efficient, and high-performing infrastructures that meet Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) standards.

Our Head of Cloud Engineering Owns product life cycles across domains, driving continuous improvement with a focus on optimisation and automation. To thrive in this role will require a motivated, impact-driven professional capable of managing multiple workstreams—including team leadership, sales/marketing support, and client delivery. Through thought leadership, you'll drive innovation, eliminate bottlenecks, and develop team capabilities by removing single points of failure.

The Impact You’ll Make

In this role, you’ll be:

• Collaborating across the entire business unit to develop a product-oriented mind-set, with a focus on ensuring the right solution is delivered based upon customer needs.
• Design and deliver resilient IT services to ensure adherence to efficient SLAs and KPIs.
• Devising and establishing modern IT policies and systems to support the implementation of strategies from the C-suite.
• Driving discussions with senior technical experts regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation.
• Ensuring all company cloud and technology services are protected by implementing stringent controls and appropriate cyber security protections are in place, monitored, regularly tested and operational.
• Acting as the decision maker and design authority for internal systems and client managed cloud platforms including cybersecurity, service availability, resilience and disaster recovery.
• Leading the deployment of solutions in cloud technology, infrastructure, security and storage.
• Ensuring technically robust, and commercially compelling solutions to address clients real business challenges
• Supporting timely and accurate client solution designs, proposals and tender response submissions.
• Day to day management of Cloud Engineering Team. Supporting their development, knowledge base and growth.
• Leading strategic capacity planning and growth capability.
• Being the interface between other areas of the business/customers and technical teams. Juggling different priorities and aims, to make sure the client is at the forefront of our approach.
• Owning product collateral and educating the Group on development and approach.
• Being key link between technology subject matter experts and the C-suite.

What You’ll Bring to the Team and the Tools you’ll need:

You’ll bring:

Values

• An open and honest approach to our clients and colleagues, garner opinions and ideas and give due consideration, act upon decisions and feedback on outcomes. Trust each other to do the right thing, take pride in your actions and celebrate successes.
• Collaboration and play to everyone’s collective strengths. Respect for each other’s differences, give honest feedback and be accountable for your actions, act positively to grow and develop yourself and your colleagues.
• Curiosity, openness and energy to embrace change. Move forward by learning quickly and be brave and confident in the decisions you and others make. Recognition of yours and others successes.

Based on Strengthscope areas:

The 5 key strengths needed to excel in this role.

Collaboration, Common Sense, Compassion, Courage, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Decisiveness, Detail orientation, Developing others, Efficiency, Emotional control, Empathy, Enthusiasm, Flexibility, Initiative, Leading, Optimism, Persuasiveness, Relationship building, Resilience, Results focused, Self-confidence, Self-improvement, Strategic mindedness

Technical Competencies

• Proven experience as Senior Technology Leader, Senior Technical Expert or similar role
• Experience in analysis, implementation and evaluation of IT systems and their specifications
• Strong track record of implementing infrastructure services in a variety of distributed computing environments.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Operating Systems, Enterprise Technologies and Virtualisation technologies
• Expert knowledge of Open Source Operating Systems, Service Provider Technologies and Virtualisation technologies
• Expert Knowledge of cybersecurity technologies, products and their application
• Expert levels of experience in Incident and Problem Management.
• Strong experience of Azure and AWS Cloud and Online technologies.
• Experienced in leading technical projects and development.
• In-depth experience in hosting technologies and hybridisation
• Migration experience Data Center to Data Center and/or Data Center to Cloud.
• Experience managing data centre or technical operations, including data assurance, monitoring, alerting and notifications.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements, including PCI-DSS, ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus.

Behavioural & Personality Competencies

• Ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Able to bring people on your journey, visualise your ideas and be clear as to the benefits of your solutions.
• Thrive on developing others.
• Be able to manage conflicting priorities.
• Being impactful and enjoying shaping company strategy and direction

About us

Our Purpose:

The Cyberfort Group is a community of 200+ passionate people united by one overall mission... to make the world safer, one business at a time. We are the "one-stop shop" for all things cyber and are working to build a centre of excellence for our customers by building an amazing place to work, learn and develop for our people.

We work with a diverse range of clients, including large Governmental departments as well as other public sector organisations and businesses within the private sector. We're growing our business and our team through our continuous investment in developing technology and cyber capability; we aim to deliver innovation to our customers as fast as possible. Whether it's AI-driven ML-based threat intelligence or rapid start hybrid Cloud; our goal is to implement solutions that make us stand out in the market.

If that sounds like you, we'd like to see......

• Your CV

Find your place at the Cyberfort Group - Our vision is to bring together technology, people, expertise, facilities and leaders in Cybersecurity to create capability that is second to none. We aim to create a workplace that leverages the expertise of people from a diverse range of backgrounds that are to be themselves, are celebrated for thinking differently and work together as one team.

We know that a one size fits all approach to our recruitment and selection practices will not allow us to reach some of the incredible people that are out there and it’s common practice for us to make adjustments. When you apply to work for us please let us know if there’s anything we can do to allow you to showcase your skills and talents to the best of your ability.