Head of Infrastructure

WPP
London, UK
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Cloud Computing Continuous Integration DevOps Reliability Engineering Data Logging Enterprise Software Applications

Job description

Experteer Overview In this role, you will establish and coordinate infrastructure standards, operating model, governance and cross-cutting platform capabilities for DTS products. You will enable federated teams to operate autonomously while adhering to common standards for reliability, security and cost visibility. You’ll work closely with senior leaders to translate architecture and security principles into practical standards. This is a strategic role at scale, shaping how DTS platforms run securely and efficiently across the organization. You will be central to driving consistent delivery and enabling platform autonomy with governance. Pay / Benefits * Define and maintain common infrastructure standards, principles and operating expectations for DTS platforms * Establish a federated infrastructure governance model balancing central standards with product-team autonomy * Align infrastructure decisions with DTS leadership, architecture, security and commercial priorities * Create and manage deployment governance and production change visibility across DTS * Define observability, monitoring, logging and telemetry standards across platforms * Ensure reliability, resilience and operational readiness with appropriate runbooks and incident processes * Collaborate with Security, Compliance and TechOps to ensure security controls and delivery practicality * Oversee cost visibility and capacity planning, reporting by product/platform/client * Coordinate common tooling and shared platform capabilities to enable autonomy with visibility * Maintain clear ownership, accountability and risk visibility across teams Tasks * Extensive experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps or cloud operations leadership * Strong understanding of cloud platforms, observability, governance, reliability and operational resilience * Experience in federated or matrixed organizations and defining non-centralized standards * Proficiency in CI/CD, deployment governance, incident management and monitoring * Knowledge of infrastructure security, access control, network exposure and risk * Ability to influence senior technical leaders and cross-functional teams without direct authority * Solid stakeholder management across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product, TechOps and Enterprise Technology * Clear communication and practical standard creation to enable adoption Key requirements * hybrid/office work model * career growth opportunities * scale and opportunity * challenging and stimulating work

Requirements

manage deployment governance and production change visibility across DTS * Define observability, monitoring, logging and telemetry standards across platforms * Ensure reliability, resilience and operational readiness with appropriate runbooks and incident processes * Collaborate with Security, Compliance and TechOps to ensure security controls and delivery practicality * Oversee cost visibility and capacity planning, reporting by product/platform/client * Coordinate common tooling and shared platform capabilities to enable autonomy with visibility * Maintain clear ownership, accountability and risk visibility across teams Tasks * Extensive experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps or cloud operations leadership * Strong understanding of cloud platforms, observability, governance, reliability and operational resilience * Experience in federated or matrixed organizations and defining non-centralized standards * Proficiency in CI/CD, deployment governance, incident aaaa growth and monitoring * Knowledge of infrastructure security, access control, network exposure and risk * Ability to influence senior technical leaders and cross-functional teams without direct authority * Solid stakeholder management across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product, TechOps and Enterprise Technology * Clear communication and practical standard creation to enable adoption Key requirements * hybrid/office work model * career growth opportunities * scale and opportunity * challenging and stimulating work

Apply for this position

This job is hosted externally. Click below to view the full posting and apply.

Apply on eu.experteer.com

Good distractions

Talks and stories from around this role — technically off-topic, practically not.

1:34 min

Pivoting careers into specialized platform engineering roles

Xavier Portilla Edo · LIVE

2:27 min

Introduction to WebAssembly in a cloud computing context

Edo Edo · World Congress 2024

1:10 min

Exposing sensitive information through partial search logs

Dennis Schulz Dennis Schulz +1 · World Congress 2026 Europe

2:17 min

Mapping the maturity roadmap for scaled devops adoption

Dominik Krichbaum Dominik Krichbaum · World Congress 2026 Europe

2:30 min

Establishing shared definitions for devops and cloud architectures

Bruno Amaro Almeida · World Congress 2022

2:51 min

Alibaba Cloud developer resources and cloud computing training

Cheng Zhang · LIVE

Videos

See all

Related articles

See all