Head of Infrastructure and Cloud

Job summary

Lead the hosting strategy and cloud platform capability for ClearCourse, managing a secure, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure estate across cloud and hosted environments. This senior leadership role involves leading a team of Cloud and Infrastructure Engineers, driving platform reliability, governance, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience within a PE-backed, acquisitive, or multi-product technology organisation
• Knowledge of CI/CD infrastructure requirements and platform engineering practices
• Experience supporting disaster recovery and business continuity programmes
• Exposure to M&A activity, including integration of acquired infrastructure environments

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver ClearCourse's hosting and cloud infrastructure strategy
• Lead and develop a team of Cloud and Infrastructure Engineers
• Oversee the design, provisioning, and management of cloud and hosted environments
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) standards and cloud architecture best practices across the Group
• Ensure infrastructure environments are secure, resilient, and highly available
• Partner with Security teams to maintain robust access controls, logging, and compliance standards
• Support disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity planning
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering to support CI/CD infrastructure requirements
• Manage cloud spend, optimisation initiatives, and FinOps activities alongside Finance teams
• Ensure effective monitoring and operational governance across the infrastructure estate

Relocation