DC Thomson
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 1905
📱 Media
👥 B2C
Media • B2C • Advertising
DC Thomson is a diverse media company with a portfolio that includes Beano Studios, brightsolid, DC Thomson Media, Findmypast, Puzzler, and The Stylist Group. The company operates in a wide range of areas, producing content and providing media services. DC Thomson Capital and DC Thomson Shop are also part of its business operations, showcasing its involvement in finance and retail activities. The company places a strong emphasis on privacy and data protection, adhering to various legal terms and conditions regarding advertising, competition, and users' privacy. DC Thomson is committed to user experience and security, utilizing technologies for ad performance measurement and personalization.
Head of Cloud Engineering – 12m FTC
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote
⏳ Contract/Temporary
🔴 Lead
☁️ Cloud Engineer
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DC Thomson
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 1905
📱 Media
👥 B2C
Media • B2C • Advertising
DC Thomson is a diverse media company with a portfolio that includes Beano Studios, brightsolid, DC Thomson Media, Findmypast, Puzzler, and The Stylist Group. The company operates in a wide range of areas, producing content and providing media services. DC Thomson Capital and DC Thomson Shop are also part of its business operations, showcasing its involvement in finance and retail activities. The company places a strong emphasis on privacy and data protection, adhering to various legal terms and conditions regarding advertising, competition, and users' privacy. DC Thomson is committed to user experience and security, utilizing technologies for ad performance measurement and personalization.
📋 Description
• Own the architecture, engineering, and lifecycle of Brightsolid's cloud platforms and services. • Lead Cloud Engineering and Network teams ensuring delivery of high-quality, scalable, secure infrastructure • Drive engineering excellence through automation, standardisation, and modern operating models • Maintain full accountability for multi-tenant cloud platforms, both internal and customer-facing • Lead the transition from legacy environments to open-source platforms (Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes) • Ensure platforms meet defined SLAs, resilience, compliance, and security requirements • Lead network engineering and datacentre strategy across all Brightsolid facilities • Ensure high-availability, resilient, and high-performance connectivity and infrastructure • Own disaster recovery, capacity planning, and infrastructure lifecycle management • Own the strategy, architecture, and operation of all engineering and business-critical tooling across the group • Provide full lifecycle ownership of key enterprise platforms, including: • - ITSM and Service Management platforms (e.g. ServiceNow or equivalent) • - CRM and customer engagement platforms (e.g. Salesforce or equivalent) • - Monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms • - Automation, CI/CD, and DevOps tooling • - Identity, access management, and security tooling • Define and enforce standards for tooling rationalisation, reducing duplication and driving platform consistency across the organisation • Lead the transition from fragmented tools towards a cohesive, platform-led operating model, where tooling is: • - API-driven • - Automated-first • - Integrated into engineering workflows and service delivery • Work cross-functionally with Product, Sales, and Customer Success teams to support solution development and delivery • Build and lead high-performing Cloud Engineering and Network teams • Define and manage KPIs across platform availability, performance, cost, and customer outcomes • Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement
🎯 Requirements
• Proven experience leading, mentoring and developing high-performing engineering teams, including direct people leadership, performance management, team structure and succession planning. • Strong experience building a culture of automation, accountability, operational discipline and continuous improvement. • Experience working within a service provider or managed service environment delivering high-availability services in a 24x7 operational context. • Strong understanding of multi-datacentre architecture, service provider internet services, WAN connectivity, cloud infrastructure and operational support models. • Experience owning change management, problem management, SLA reporting and KPI reporting for engineering operations. • Strong understanding of security technologies and the role of security, compliance and resilience in platform operations. • Experience working closely with service operations, security operations, product management, sales and customers. • Eligible to work in the United Kingdom. • Experience with OpenStack networking and Linux-based networking technologies. • Experience with modern network security approaches. • Experience working directly with Cisco, Canonical, NVIDIA and other strategic technology partners or service providers. • Relevant certifications such as CCNP, RHCE or equivalent.
🏖️ Benefits
• 34 days holiday • Health Cash Plan • excellent Pension • competitive salary • many more staff discounts and benefits
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