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# ICT Cloud Infrastructure and Platforms Specialist

- **Company:** South Wales Police
- **Location:** Bridgend, UK
- **Salary:** £47,046.0 - £55,696.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PAAS), Performance Tuning, Cloud Services, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=02a816749025e15a

## About the Role

Must be qualified to Degree level standard or be able to demonstrate equivalent skills and abilities.
Experience of designing, implementing and technically leading on some of the following areas:
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Must be aware of the strategic operational implications of effective IT upon the organisation.

## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Infrastructure and Platforms Specialist. As a Cloud Infrastructure and Platforms Specialist, you will be responsible for developing cloud infrastructure and platforms, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platforms as a service (PaaS) within the South Wales Police managed cloud tenants. Within the role, you may supervise junior ICT Specialists, and you will play a crucial role in ensuring service availability, security and standards compliance as well as driving process improvements and enhancing system performance., Implement, configure and maintain managed cloud solutions.
Design and deploy cloud infrastructure, including compute and platform services.
Oversee cloud performance tuning, policy and management.
Develop and maintain documentation for cloud processes and procedures
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and solve system issues.
Develop and maintain security protocols for cloud solutions
Plan and execute disaster recovery and business continuity procedures.
To provide IT specialist advice to business users and IT peers for your specialist technological area
Manage Technical Staff within your technical area, This Cloud Infrastructure and Platforms Specialist role will work in the Technical Standards section of the ICT Department and will reports to the Technical Standards manager

Our Information and Communications Technology Department (ICT) has a wide and varied range of responsibilities from 1st line service desk, 2nd line technical support to 3rd line specialist technical architect/design. ICT are also responsible for IT Security management, Service Management, Business Support and Project Management that maintain and continuously improve critical services, software, platforms, and hardware required throughout the full IT lifecycle. This underpins the delivery of secure and timely 24/7 operations for approximately 10,000 users across 100 geographical locations supporting over 20,000 computers including multiple datacentres together with the underlying network, physical and virtual (including cloud services) IT infrastructure.


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