Cloud Engineering Manager – Overview
As a Cloud Engineering Manager, you will make a powerful contribution to Westminster's success, as part of Digital and Innovation team, working with services across the Council to deliver excellent customer experience alongside robust and innovative technology and digital products.
As a council, we work with multi‑cloud services across the organisation and this role is integral to its success. Overseeing the Cloud Team and the organisation’s development and production environments, you will manage cloud infrastructure across all services. Using open‑source, cloud‑based technologies you enable Westminster to operate in an innovative and agile way.
The work we do covers all the basics but requires you to stay on top of emerging technologies. We want to experiment and implement new technology wisely to maintain a culture of proactive and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
You will be pragmatic and have a problem‑solving attitude to help develop and deliver our roadmap.
You will also work to get best value from our digital data and technology partnerships, and help us learn and continue to improve the culture of our organisation. You will lead the adoption and execution of Agile and DevOps practices to enhance team collaboration and ensure the continuous, efficient delivery of high‑quality digital services.
You'll innovate with multi‑cloud solutions, architect, deploy, and oversee multi‑cloud environments across Azure and GCP, focusing on scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure.
You'll serve as the key point of contact between the infrastructure team and other departments, promoting alignment and smooth integration across workstreams.
Your excellent interpersonal and communication skills will allow you to build influential relationships with our internal and external users, suppliers and partners at senior management level.
You will be capable of coaching, mentoring, line‑managing and creating a positive working environment in which equality and diversity are embedded in the team's work, and staff are empowered and motivated to achieve good outcomes.
You will be an active listener and possess the ability to explain complex ideas clearly to a wide range of audiences and support good communication within and from the team.
Qualifications & Skills
- Passion for building diverse teams and communities
- Experience running recruitment
- Coaching, mentoring, and line‑management skills
Equal Opportunity & EEO Statement
We are a multi‑award winning and forward‑thinking Council which appreciates that people work in different ways and offers flexible and agile working patterns.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
The Council and its partners are committed to achieving diverse shortlists for all vacancies at Band 4 or above to support our desire to increase the number of staff from under‑represented groups in our workforce. As part of this ambition, if you are from a Global Majority you can self‑declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.
