Anglian Water Services-posted 1 day ago
$70,000 - $75,000/Yr
Full-time • Manager
Hybrid • Lincoln, NE
1,001-5,000 employees

Step into a pivotal role at the heart of Anglian Water’s digital ecosystem. As our Platform Operations Manager, you’ll lead the hybrid infrastructure that underpins everything we do, from cutting-edge Cloud platforms to mission-critical on-premise technology across both IT and OT environments. Operating at the crossroads of reliability, performance and agility, you’ll guide our Site Reliability Engineering, Platform & Network Engineering and Managed Service partners to deliver high-performing, secure and scalable platform services. You’ll be a driving force in our shift toward modern Cloud delivery and Product-aligned, service-aware operations, championing automation, observability and resilient platform design from the start. Your leadership will ensure operational readiness is built into every stage of digital delivery, embedding preventative practices that strengthen the core of our technology landscape. As our Platform Operations Manager, you’ll be at the heart of Anglian Water’s hybrid infrastructure, ensuring our platforms and networks are secure, scalable, and high performing. This role gives you the opportunity to shape the future of Anglian Water’s digital backbone while driving innovation, reliability, and operational excellence across all our platforms and networks. Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.

  • Lead platform strategy and delivery - managing the hybrid infrastructure roadmap, balancing in-house and managed service capabilities, and embedding automation-first, resilient design from the outset.
  • Ensure operational reliability and service-aware operations - overseeing Site Reliability Engineering, uptime, performance, and proactive observability to reduce operational toil and enable self-healing platforms.
  • Develop people and partnerships - leading and coaching a high-performing team, building in-house capability, and managing relationships with strategic partners to drive service improvement.
  • Drive continuous improvement and transformation - championing DevOps, automation, and modern Cloud practices, identifying opportunities to reduce cost and complexity, and fostering a culture of learning, experimentation, and safe challenge.
  • Degree in a technology or computing discipline
  • Extensive experience leading hybrid platform operations (cloud/on-prem)
  • Proven track record of leading SRE, DevOps and infrastructure automation practices
  • Experience managing network and platform engineering teams
  • Strong working knowledge of platform observability and telemetry tools
  • Experience managing outsourced and in-house technical teams
  • Understanding of ITIL processes (esp. Change, Incident, Problem)
  • Familiarity with containerised environments and Infrastructure as Code
  • Relevant professional certifications (e.g. Azure, AWS, ITIL, SRE)
  • Full private healthcare with no excess
  • 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
  • A flexible working culture
  • Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 6%
  • Life Assurance at eight times your salary
  • Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
  • Bonus Scheme
© 2024 Teal Labs, Inc
Privacy PolicyTerms of Service