Cloud Governance Manager

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Direct Line Insurance Group plc Full time

About Us

At Direct Line Group, we're a customer-obsessed market powerhouse, combining decades of industry experience with talented people in every field. We're evolving to be a more digitally-focused, data-driven insurance company of the future.

We're looking for an experienced Cloud Governance Manager who will lead and develop the Cloud Governance model to ensure it remains current and fit for purpose within a constantly changing multi-cloud ecosystem.

The successful candidate will provide expertise to ensure that agreed enterprise standards are adhered to, steering the Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) in Cloud governance best practices, and supporting, guiding, and influencing any exceptions and deviations from the model.

You will also be responsible for monitoring, managing, and optimising Cloud spend to deliver maximum return on investment and advising and supporting cloud budget forecasting for dedicated and shared cloud services.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support the development and maturity of our CCoE and the Cloud Governance model.
  • Contribute to the definitions of Cloud Governance policies within the CCoE.
  • Develop tagging policies and ensure compliance across all Cloud Service Providers.
  • Create a control testing model to ensure ongoing compliance with Cloud standards.
  • Advise on transforming existing manual Cloud processes and tasks into automation.
  • Support Cloud Capacity Planning and Capacity Management.
  • Collaborate with the CCoE on policies and guardrails to empower the business while maintaining enterprise standards.
  • Coach and mentor existing members of the FinOps team in wider Cloud Governance best practices.
  • Provide cost forecasting across the Cloud estate for proposed/planned changes to existing deployments.
  • Workload planning modelling the expected cost of a deployment into AWS, Azure, or OCI.

What We Offer

  • 9% employer contributed pension
  • 50% off home, motor and pet insurance plus free travel insurance and Green Flag breakdown cover
  • Up to 10% annual bonus
  • 25 days holiday (rising by 1 each year to 28) + bank holidays and option to buy or sell up to 5 days
  • Additional optional Health and Dental insurance
  • EV car scheme allows all colleagues to lease a brand new electric or plug-in hybrid car in a tax efficient way.
  • Buy as you earn share scheme
  • Employee discounts and cashback
  • Plus many more

Ways of Working

We offer a hybrid model that provides flexibility for everyone. When you'll be in the office depends on your role, but most colleagues are in 2 days a week, and we'll consider the flexible working options that work best for you.

Requirements

  • Direct experience of managing a Cloud Governance model within a large multi-cloud environment.
  • Expertise in Cloud Governance best practice models, policies, and standards.
  • Ability to influence decision-making through clear informed evidence-based data and build healthy trusted relationships.
  • Technical knowledge of both AWS and Azure.
  • Experience of Cloud management tools including Cloudability, AWS cost explorer, AWS Cudos, Azure Cost Management, and PowerBI.
  • Data-driven with an analytical background.

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