VP Infrastructure Operations

🕒 July 8

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Operations

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Digital Science

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🔬 Science

📚 Education

🏢 Enterprise

Science • Education • Enterprise

Digital Science is a company dedicated to enhancing the research lifecycle through innovative technology solutions. They aim to make research processes more efficient, data more effective, and collaboration more seamless, thus driving progress in academic and industry settings. Their product portfolio includes services such as Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, Overleaf, and more, which support various research stages from data management to publication. They focus on advancing open and responsible research while maintaining partnerships across academic, governmental, and industrial sectors. Digital Science actively contributes to the evolution of open access and research integrity standards.

📋 Description

• As our VP of Infrastructure Operations, you will be part of our Technology team, overseeing the strategy, design and management of our (predominantly) cloud infrastructure which centres on AWS and GCP. • You will lead cross-functional teams, manage vendor relationships and ensure the reliability, performance, availability and efficiency of cloud services in a fast-paced, high growth environment. • Lead the design, implementation and optimisation of the company’s cloud infrastructure, focussing primarily on AWS and GCP to meet current and future business requirements. • Define and execute a cloud strategy that supports scalability, cost efficiency and business continuity. • Collaborate closely with the security team to ensure that infrastructure adheres to required frameworks, policies, procedures and evidence gathering requirements. • Partner with the Development, Product, Security and Business teams to ensure the business requirements are understood, met and reported on to ensure the smooth delivery of infrastructure services across the organisation.

🎯 Requirements

• You’re experienced in the senior leadership of IT infrastructure with a focus on cloud services. • You are highly experienced managing multiple cloud operations teams spanning different technologies, geographies and requirements. • You have expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, etc.) and GCP services (Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, etc.). • You have a demonstrable leadership proficiency in DevOps tools and practices including CI/CD, automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform). • You have a strong understanding and history of excelling in Monitoring, Logging and Alerting processes and tooling. • You have a Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field, and/or equivalent preferred qualifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect).

🏖️ Benefits

• We invest in, nurture and support innovative businesses and technologies that make all parts of the research process more open, efficient and effective. • We are brave in the pursuit of better • We are collaborative and inclusive • We are always open-minded • We are from and for the community • As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to building and nurturing a workplace where every individual feels valued and belongs.