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# Head of Infrastructure and Platforms

- **Company:** Wiltshire Police
- **Location:** Devizes, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £85,773.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Cloud Services, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/head-of-infrastructure/wiltshire-police-constabulary-job108166567

## About the Role

* Significant experience leading infrastructure, platform or cloud services within a complex technology environment.
 * Proven ability to lead large-scale infrastructure, cloud or platform transformation initiatives.
 * Strong understanding of platform resilience, availability, security, recoverability and operational risk management.
 * Passionate about modern platform engineering, automation, innovation and enabling excellent user outcomes through technology.
 * ITIL 4 Foundation certified.
 * Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), or equivalent cloud architecture certification.
 * ITIL 4 Managing Professional certified.
 * Relevant degree in IT, Engineering, or equivalent senior professional experience.

## Description

As Head of Infrastructure & Platforms, you will lead the transformation of Wiltshire Police's technology foundations, ensuring our infrastructure and platforms are secure, resilient, scalable and ready to support the future of digital policing. Working as a key member of the DDaT leadership team, you will drive cloud modernisation, platform innovation and engineering excellence across a complex technology landscape. This is a unique opportunity to shape the cloud, platform and infrastructure capabilities that will underpin the future of digital policing. You will drive innovation across digital, data and AI-enabled services, build high-performing teams, and establish the secure, resilient and scalable foundations that enable Wiltshire Police to be a leader in modern, technology-enabled policing.

What you will be doing

 * Lead the strategy, roadmap and transformation of infrastructure and platforms across on-premises, private cloud and public cloud environments.
 * Drive cloud-smart modernisation and platform engineering practices that enable secure, scalable and sustainable digital services.
 * Lead infrastructure and platform engineering teams across networks, compute, storage, databases and communications technologies.
 * Ensure platforms are engineered for availability, resilience, security, recoverability and operational performance.
 * Establish and enforce technical standards, patterns and guardrails aligned to national policing policy, government standards and industry best practice.
 * Champion automation, cloud technologies and modern platform capabilities that improve service outcomes and reduce complexity.
 * Enable innovation, AI adoption and new digital services through flexible, secure and scalable platform foundations.
 * Provide senior leadership on platform risk, technology investment and future capability, working with internal and external partners to deliver strategic outcomes., * Tattoos - you will also be requested to provide photos and describe of any visible tattoos you have

You may require the following documents to complete this application form:

 * A Passport style photograph
 * A copy of your photo card driving licence
 * A downloaded DVLA summary showing full driving record
 * A copy of your paper driving licence counterpart (Northern Ireland only)
 * A copy of your British Passport or birth certificate (if a candidate does not have a passport, then they may use their birth certificate, but will need to provide a copy of a British passport once they have obtained one.)
 * Copies of your qualifications relating to English and Maths (only). If applying for the Degree Holder Police Constable Apprenticeship, you will need a copy of your Degree Certificate.
 * Clear, colour photos of any non-intimate tattoos
 * Formal translation from a reputable source for any foreign language or symbol tattoos
 * Any paperwork relating to discharged debts, CCJ, bankruptcy etc
 * Deed poll certificate for any name changes