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Chief of Platform Operations

2 months ago


Belfast, United Kingdom Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Full time

Job Overview

The Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) is a newly established shared corporate service that aims to provide essential corporate functions across various departments, including HR, Finance, Digital, Commercial, Security, and Estates.

Our dedicated team of over 300 professionals is at the forefront of transforming how these services are delivered. Our goal is to become the premier provider of integrated corporate services for government, setting benchmarks for quality, efficiency, and innovation.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including a top-tier pension plan, flexible working arrangements, and a commitment to your professional growth and development. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader employer, ensuring support for candidates requiring adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

The Civil Service is dedicated to attracting, retaining, and investing in talent from diverse backgrounds.

About the Role

Join ICS Digital, where creativity and expertise converge to develop cutting-edge digital solutions. As part of a collaborative digital community, we prioritize transparency and teamwork to address challenges and enhance user experiences. Our focus on user-centered design and data-informed decision-making enables us to provide accessible services tailored to our customers' needs.

As the Head of Platform Engineering, you will be instrumental in leading and overseeing the development and management of our Enterprise Hosting Platforms, which utilize both AWS and Azure technologies. Your leadership will drive the enhancement and adoption of our platform tooling solutions on AWS, while also expanding our capabilities to support Azure. You will work towards consolidating our cloud hosting platforms to ensure a dependable service offering for the department.

In this role, you will provide strategic direction and leadership to a growing team of technical engineering specialists, managing a team of approximately eight platform engineers and developers. Collaboration with the Head of Architecture/Cyber and our ICS Digital Delivery colleagues will be essential.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop strategic and tactical engineering roadmaps for your area, ensuring they are future-ready and maximize technology investments.
  • Collaborate with technical architects to translate architectural designs into operational processes.
  • Lead and maintain the capabilities of infrastructure specialist teams in building, managing, and supporting solutions in line with policy.
  • Facilitate integrations with other products and new services into production.
  • Evaluate current implementation strategies and identify areas for improvement.

Skills and Experience

  • Proven experience as an Infrastructure Engineer or in a similar capacity, demonstrating technical proficiency in cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure.
  • Extensive background in building, maintaining, and deploying enterprise monitoring and alerting tools across complex environments.
  • Strong senior leadership capabilities.
  • Experience in developing strategic and tactical engineering roadmaps and championing the adoption of emerging technologies.
  • Ability to manage operational relationships between internal stakeholders and critical third-party suppliers, aligning services with best practices and regulatory standards.

Benefits

Alongside a competitive salary, the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes significantly towards your membership in the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Additional benefits include:

  • A flexible working culture, offering options such as job sharing, remote work, and compressed hours.
  • Automatic enrollment in the pension scheme, with an average employer contribution of 27%.
  • A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30 days.
  • A wide range of learning and professional development opportunities, actively encouraged for all staff.
  • Access to various retail, travel, and lifestyle employee discounts.

Office Attendance

The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, allowing for a blend of in-office and remote work, with an expectation of attending the office for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.