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# VP Engineering and Reliability

- **Company:** IFS
- **Location:** Staines-upon-Thames, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Databases, Oracle (Applications), Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
- **Published:** September 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=44ff3541686cec15

## About the Role

* Substantial engineering leadership experience at Senior Director or VP level, including leading leaders, in an organisation of comparable or greater technical complexity.
 * Proven accountability for a platform or infrastructure engineering organisation of 40+ engineers across multiple locations.
 * Deep, credible experience across at least three of the domains:
 + CI/CD and release engineering at scale
 + Cloud infrastructure provisioning and infrastructure-as-code
 + Oracle database engineering, including Exadata and Oracle on VMs

 * Track record of running large-scale Oracle estates in production - RAC, Data Guard, Exadata - and of modernising or migrating them without disrupting the business.
 * Demonstrated delivery of cloud-first transformation while continuing to operate significant legacy or specialised infrastructure.
 * Experience defining and operating an SRE model: SLOs, error budgets, incident command and post-incident learning.
 * Strong commercial capability - budget ownership, vendor negotiation, FinOps and Oracle licensing awareness.
 * Experience in a regulated or high-availability environment where downtime carries material commercial or reputational cost.
 * Evidence of building high-performing teams: hiring senior talent, developing leaders, and improving retention and engagement.

Additional Information

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.

## Description

To lead the engineering & reliability function within the "Technology Platform" organization responsible for the systems that other engineers build on: continuous delivery, automated infrastructure provisioning, database and performance engineering.

The VP is accountable for the reliability, security, performance and cost of these platforms, for the engineering standards applied across them, and for building a high-calibre, globally distributed leadership team.