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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Head of Infrastructure - **Company:** InfoSum - **Location:** Greater London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Data Sharing, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Reliability Engineering, Security Information and Event Management, Software Deployment, Data Logging, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System - **Published:** September 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2847386909-head-of-infrastructure ## About the Role * Multiple years of experience overseeing infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, cloud operations or technology operations leadership. * Strong understanding of cloud platforms, deployment models, observability, reliability, infrastructure governance and operational resilience. * Experience working in federated or matrixed technology organisations. * Ability to define standards and operating models without over-centralising delivery. * Strong understanding of CI/CD, deployment governance, incident management, monitoring, logging and production operations. * Good knowledge of infrastructure security, access control, network exposure, cloud posture and operational risk. * Ability to influence senior technical leaders and product/platform teams without relying solely on line authority. * Strong stakeholder management skills across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product, TechOps and Enterprise Technology. * Ability to balance autonomy, consistency, security, reliability and delivery speed. * Clear communication skills and the ability to create practical standards that teams can adopt. ## Description The Head of Infrastructure, Data & Technology Solutions is responsible for establishing and coordinating the infrastructure standards, operating model, governance, and cross-cutting platform capabilities required to run DTS products securely, reliably and consistently. DTS operates a federated model, where specialist product and platform teams retain autonomy for how they build, deploy and operate their own environments. The Head of Infrastructure ensures those teams operate within a common set of DTS standards for reliability, observability, security, deployment control, cost visibility, operational readiness and resilience. The role will work closely with the CTO, Chief Architect, SVP Data Collaboration Infrastructure, SVP Security and Compliance, TechOps, Engineering, Product, Enterprise Technology and platform leads across InfoSum, Open Intelligence, Resolve and other DTS capabilities. The purpose of the role is to create alignment and visibility across infrastructure and providing the autonomy needed by specialist teams to operate according to agreed standards and principles., * Working with DTS leadership to define infrastructure principles, minimum standards and operating expectations. * Establishing standards for reliability, observability, deployment governance, security, resilience, cost visibility and operational readiness. * Ensuring standards are practical and can be adopted by different DTS platform teams. * Creating a clear infrastructure operating model that distinguishes between central standards and product-team autonomy. * Ensuring infrastructure standards are aligned with DTS architecture, security, product and commercial priorities. Federated infrastructure governance * Ensuring InfoSum, Open Intelligence, Resolve and other platform teams can operate their own infrastructure while meeting common DTS requirements. * Avoiding unnecessary centralisation that would slow down specialist teams or remove useful autonomy. * Defining where common tooling or central coordination is required. * Ensuring each product/platform team has clear infrastructure ownership and accountability. * Creating mechanisms to monitor whether teams are operating within agreed standards. Alignment with DTS leadership * Taking direction from the CTO, Chief Architect, SVP Data Collaboration Infrastructure and SVP Security and Compliance on infrastructure priorities. * Translating DTS architecture and security principles into practical infrastructure standards. * Working with DTS leaders to resolve trade-offs between autonomy, standardisation, cost, security and reliability. * Ensuring infrastructure decisions support the wider DTS platform direction. * Providing leadership with visibility of infrastructure risks, gaps, dependencies and progress. Deployment governance and change visibility * Defining minimum standards for production deployment processes. * Establishing central visibility of who deployed what, when and where. * Supporting release gates, change records and deployment auditability. * Enabling teams to use their own deployment tooling while reporting into a common deployment record. * Supporting mechanisms to pause or control deployments during high-risk or sensitive periods. * Ensuring deployment activity can be correlated with incidents, outages and platform instability. Observability, monitoring and operational visibility * Establishing standards for logging, metrics, tracing, alerting and dashboards. * Ensuring product teams provide the right operational and security telemetry. * Supporting cross-platform visibility for incidents, chained attacks, service degradation and performance issues. * Working with Security Operations on SIEM, SOC and threat detection requirements. * Ensuring infrastructure and application events are visible to the right operational teams. Reliability, resilience and operational readiness * Defining standards for service-level objectives, availability, recovery, incident readiness and operational maturity. * Working with platform teams to ensure services are designed and operated to appropriate reliability levels. * Supporting disaster recovery, business continuity and operational readiness requirements. * Ensuring teams have appropriate runbooks, escalation paths and incident response processes. * Tracking recurring operational issues and ensuring they are addressed through the appropriate teams. Infrastructure security alignment * Ensuring infrastructure standards reflect security requirements around access control, network exposure, ingress/egress, secrets, logging and hardening. * Working with the Cloud and Platform Security Lead where applicable. * Ensuring teams provide evidence that required infrastructure security controls are in place. * Supporting the reduction of unnecessary public exposure across DTS services. * Ensuring infrastructure governance supports audit, compliance and client assurance requirements. Cost visibility and capacity oversight * Defining standards for cloud cost reporting and allocation. * Ensuring teams can report infrastructure cost by product, platform, client or workload where appropriate. * Identifying areas of duplication, waste or inefficient infrastructure use. * Supporting capacity planning across growing DTS platforms and AI/data workloads. * Providing leadership with clear visibility of infrastructure cost drivers and optimisation opportunities. Relationship with TechOps * Work closely with the TechOps function while maintaining clear ownership boundaries. * TechOps is responsible for day-to-day delivery operations, environment support, release coordination and operational support to engineering teams. * The Head of Infrastructure is responsible for defining infrastructure standards, governance, shared visibility, reliability expectations and cross-DTS platform coordination. Relationship with TechOps - This Includes: * Partnering with TechOps to ensure infrastructure standards are practical in delivery workflows. * Using TechOps feedback to identify recurring operational issues and improvement opportunities. * Avoiding duplication of TechOps responsibilities. * Ensuring delivery operations and infrastructure governance operate as a joined-up capability. * Clarifying when issues should be handled by TechOps, product engineering, infrastructure teams, security or DTS leadership. Common tooling and shared platform capabilities * Identify and coordinate shared tooling where it benefits DTS. This Includes: * Assessing where common tooling should be used for deployment governance, observability, incident management, cost reporting, infrastructure inventory and operational reporting. * Avoiding unnecessary standardisation where teams need specialist tooling. * Supporting common integration points rather than forcing all teams onto identical infrastructure stacks. * Defining central capabilities that allow teams to remain autonomous while providing DTS-wide visibility. * Working with Architecture and Infrastructure teams to introduce shared services where there is clear value. Who You'll Be Working With: * Common DTS infrastructure standards and operating model. * Federated infrastructure governance across DTS platforms. * Alignment of infrastructure activity with DTS leadership direction. * Deployment governance and production change visibility. * Observability, monitoring and operational visibility standards. * Reliability, resilience and operational readiness expectations. * Infrastructure cost visibility and reporting. * Clear distinction and partnership between Infrastructure and TechOps. * Infrastructure alignment with DTS architecture, security and compliance requirements. * Ensuring platform teams retain autonomy while meeting common DTS standards., * Act as a coordinator and enabler, not a central blocker. * Respect the autonomy of specialist product and platform teams. * Create clarity around infrastructure standards and expectations. * Work closely with DTS senior leadership and take direction from agreed architecture and security strategy. * Build trust with TechOps, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security and Product teams. * Challenge teams where infrastructure practices create risk, poor visibility or operational weakness. * Avoid unnecessary centralisation while reducing fragmentation where it creates risk. * Provide clear reporting on infrastructure health, cost, reliability and operational readiness. Success measures Success In The Role Will Be Measured By: * DTS having clear and adopted infrastructure standards. * Product and platform teams operating autonomously while meeting common DTS expectations. * Improved visibility of deployments and production changes across DTS. * Better observability and monitoring across DTS platforms. * Clearer understanding of infrastructure ownership and operational accountability. * Improved ability to correlate incidents with deployments and infrastructure changes. * Reduced infrastructure fragmentation where it creates operational, security or cost risk. * Improved infrastructure cost transparency. * Stronger alignment between Infrastructure, TechOps, Security, Architecture and Engineering. * Leadership having confidence in the reliability, visibility and governability of DTS infrastructure. ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Smart City, Smart Mobility](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/954-smart-city-smart-mobility) - [Crypto-secure Data Management with In-Database Blockchain](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/632-crypto-secure-data-management-with-in-database-blockchain) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) - [Building Accountability in Agentic AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100046-building-accountability-in-agentic-ai) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [IT Salaries in UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/288-it-salaries-in-uk) - [Best Companies to work for in London: Top 25 Companies in 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/187-best-companies-to-work-for-in-london-top-25-companies-in-2023) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries)