Platform Owner - Cloud Hosting and Infrastructure
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 May 2024 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV7 9JU |
| Company: | Cadent Gas Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 728-42418739 |
Summary
Cadent Gas Ltd
At Cadent we’re excited to be part of the future of UK energy! We’ve got a clear roadmap that will drive our performance to the forefront of our industry and support the UK government in achieving its net zero targets by 2050.
We’re making a difference through innovation and new ways of working. Together we’re shaping a cleaner, greener future for our 11 million customers whom we put at the heart of everything we do.
As a Platform Owner for Cloud and Infrastructure, you will be see as an industry leader and expert, ensuring team and individual service delivery expectations are exceeded and positively received. You will influence, lead, and successfully execute departmental strategy and decisions to deliver outputs on time and compliantly creating a resilient, supportive, and proactive culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear and compelling platform strategy that aligns with the company's overall goals and objectives for Cloud, infrastructure and End User Computing. This covers cloud environments, services and tools, monitoring, storage, backups, hardware, client operating systems and infrastructure maintenance to support business needs.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, designers, architects and business leaders, to gather input, prioritize features, and ensure the platform meets the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
- Roadmap Planning: Create and maintain a comprehensive platform roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on business impact, technical feasibility, and customer value to ensure services are evergreen. Knowledge of operating systems, hardware (laptops/end user devices) and databases to support technical debt and maintenance roadmap planning to ensure Cadent’s platforms are supported and secure.
- Platform Ownership: Take ownership of the platform's backlog, define user stories, and work closely with development teams to ensure timely delivery of enabler features and enhancements.
- Performance Monitoring: Implement robust performance metrics and monitoring processes to track platform usage, health, and effectiveness. Continuously analyse data to identify areas for improvement.
- User Experience: Champion user-centric design principles to ensure an intuitive and seamless user experience for all platform users.
Skills and Experience
- Experience with agile development methodologies, including SAFe and the role of a Product/Platform Owner therein.
- Amazon Web Services certifications and experience essential. Microsoft Azure Certified qualifications and experience desirable. Google Cloud Platform knowledge beneficial.
- VMWare, Hyper-V and server hardware experience for on premise solutions.
- Proven experience in a similar role, with a strong track record of platform ownership and delivery.
- Hands-on experience of leading agile delivery with mixed teams of in-house and external developers/engineers.
- Experience of successfully building, binding, leading, and motivating multi-disciplinary in-house technical teams.Technical Skills:
- Experience in Cloud design/architecture and environment provisioning.
- Experience in End User Computing inc. Windows 11 deployment, Unified Endpoint Management and Microsoft technologies desirable.
- Familiarity with relevant technology stacks and tools.
- Understanding of market trends and industry best practices.
- Commitment to continuous learning and staying updated on industry advancements.Leadership Skills:
- Exceptional strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Strong leadership and communication abilities, with the capacity to influence and drive consensus.
- Project management skills and the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Demonstrating resilience; finds the best path through conflicting pressures and competing demands, with the customers’ needs and priorities at the forefront.
- Working together; pro-actively targets key stakeholders and influencers and builds effective relationships with them.
- Personal responsibility: accurately sets the appropriate pace of change and works with Scrum Master to tackle impediments that are slowing progress in the Team.
- Positively aspiring; acts as a strong and credible voice for Cloud & Infrastructure Platforms across Cadent.
What’s In It For You
Here at Cadent, we are committed to supporting our employees to get the best out of themselves. For this role in particular we can offer:
- Funding and support towards completing qualifications
- Ample opportunity for progression within the business
- Mentoring and guidance opportunities
Why Join Us
We offer a host of benefits to suit your lifestyle and support your well-being. These include:
- Annual bonus
- Pension Scheme double matched up to a total of 18% of salary (i.e., employee contributions of up to 6%, double matched by a Cadent contribution of up to 12%)
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more
- Fantastic career development prospects with funded learning options, including support with exams, and internal and external learning and development
- Strong focus on supporting you as an individual including:
- Flexible working
- Strong commitments to ED&I
- Generous family provision policies
- Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, insurance, and healthcare packages, plus much more
- My Offers membership card – offering discounts and savings from hundreds of retailers
- 2 paid volunteering days per year
- Free gym access at the Ansty office, as well as a ‘Gympass’ scheme providing free or heavily subsidised local gym memberships
We want our employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working options with you if the role can accommodate it. Let us know about your flexibility requirements, whether that be reduced hours, remote working, flexible start/finish times, or compressed hours, and we will be more than happy to explore what’s possible for the role.
Diversity and Inclusion
Don’t meet every single requirement listed?
Understanding, learning, and celebrating what makes us different, as well as what we have in common, is good for us as individuals and enables us to work better together as one team. Cadent is committed to being an equitable and diverse employer that fosters an inclusive culture for all our employees, therefore, all our employment decisions are assessed based on qualifications, merit, and business need. So, if you’re excited about this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification mentioned, we would still love for you to submit your application – You may just be the right person for this role or other opportunities at Cadent.
As a recognised Disability Confident Employer, we are proud to champion inclusion in the workplace and ensure to provide an environment that is accessible to all and supports individuals throughout their journey with Cadent. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the application process.
We place great importance on equity, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our employee communities Women in Cadent, Pride at Work (LGBTQ+), Embrace (ethnicity and religion), Thrive! (disability) and the Cadent Military Community can’t wait to welcome you!
Circle Back Initiative
As an active and proud member of The Circle Back Initiative, we aim to ensure that all candidates receive a response to their application, regardless of the outcome.
We will be receiving applications until the specified date above, though Cadent retains the right to close this vacancy early without prior notification, so it is advisable to complete your application at your earliest convenience.
Be part of something big. Help shape the future of gas for generations to come.
What’s next?
To be considered for this role, please submit your application with an up-to-date CV and our Talent Acquisition team will get in touch soon.To learn more about Cadent and what we do, visit our website at Home | Cadent (cadentgas.com)
At Cadent we’re excited to be part of the future of UK energy! We’ve got a clear roadmap that will drive our performance to the forefront of our industry and support the UK government in achieving its net zero targets by 2050.
We’re making a difference through innovation and new ways of working. Together we’re shaping a cleaner, greener future for our 11 million customers whom we put at the heart of everything we do.
As a Platform Owner for Cloud and Infrastructure, you will be see as an industry leader and expert, ensuring team and individual service delivery expectations are exceeded and positively received. You will influence, lead, and successfully execute departmental strategy and decisions to deliver outputs on time and compliantly creating a resilient, supportive, and proactive culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Strategy: Develop and communicate a clear and compelling platform strategy that aligns with the company's overall goals and objectives for Cloud, infrastructure and End User Computing. This covers cloud environments, services and tools, monitoring, storage, backups, hardware, client operating systems and infrastructure maintenance to support business needs.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, designers, architects and business leaders, to gather input, prioritize features, and ensure the platform meets the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
- Roadmap Planning: Create and maintain a comprehensive platform roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on business impact, technical feasibility, and customer value to ensure services are evergreen. Knowledge of operating systems, hardware (laptops/end user devices) and databases to support technical debt and maintenance roadmap planning to ensure Cadent’s platforms are supported and secure.
- Platform Ownership: Take ownership of the platform's backlog, define user stories, and work closely with development teams to ensure timely delivery of enabler features and enhancements.
- Performance Monitoring: Implement robust performance metrics and monitoring processes to track platform usage, health, and effectiveness. Continuously analyse data to identify areas for improvement.
- User Experience: Champion user-centric design principles to ensure an intuitive and seamless user experience for all platform users.
Skills and Experience
- Experience with agile development methodologies, including SAFe and the role of a Product/Platform Owner therein.
- Amazon Web Services certifications and experience essential. Microsoft Azure Certified qualifications and experience desirable. Google Cloud Platform knowledge beneficial.
- VMWare, Hyper-V and server hardware experience for on premise solutions.
- Proven experience in a similar role, with a strong track record of platform ownership and delivery.
- Hands-on experience of leading agile delivery with mixed teams of in-house and external developers/engineers.
- Experience of successfully building, binding, leading, and motivating multi-disciplinary in-house technical teams.Technical Skills:
- Experience in Cloud design/architecture and environment provisioning.
- Experience in End User Computing inc. Windows 11 deployment, Unified Endpoint Management and Microsoft technologies desirable.
- Familiarity with relevant technology stacks and tools.
- Understanding of market trends and industry best practices.
- Commitment to continuous learning and staying updated on industry advancements.Leadership Skills:
- Exceptional strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Strong leadership and communication abilities, with the capacity to influence and drive consensus.
- Project management skills and the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Demonstrating resilience; finds the best path through conflicting pressures and competing demands, with the customers’ needs and priorities at the forefront.
- Working together; pro-actively targets key stakeholders and influencers and builds effective relationships with them.
- Personal responsibility: accurately sets the appropriate pace of change and works with Scrum Master to tackle impediments that are slowing progress in the Team.
- Positively aspiring; acts as a strong and credible voice for Cloud & Infrastructure Platforms across Cadent.
What’s In It For You
Here at Cadent, we are committed to supporting our employees to get the best out of themselves. For this role in particular we can offer:
- Funding and support towards completing qualifications
- Ample opportunity for progression within the business
- Mentoring and guidance opportunities
Why Join Us
We offer a host of benefits to suit your lifestyle and support your well-being. These include:
- Annual bonus
- Pension Scheme double matched up to a total of 18% of salary (i.e., employee contributions of up to 6%, double matched by a Cadent contribution of up to 12%)
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more
- Fantastic career development prospects with funded learning options, including support with exams, and internal and external learning and development
- Strong focus on supporting you as an individual including:
- Flexible working
- Strong commitments to ED&I
- Generous family provision policies
- Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, insurance, and healthcare packages, plus much more
- My Offers membership card – offering discounts and savings from hundreds of retailers
- 2 paid volunteering days per year
- Free gym access at the Ansty office, as well as a ‘Gympass’ scheme providing free or heavily subsidised local gym memberships
We want our employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working options with you if the role can accommodate it. Let us know about your flexibility requirements, whether that be reduced hours, remote working, flexible start/finish times, or compressed hours, and we will be more than happy to explore what’s possible for the role.
Diversity and Inclusion
Don’t meet every single requirement listed?
Understanding, learning, and celebrating what makes us different, as well as what we have in common, is good for us as individuals and enables us to work better together as one team. Cadent is committed to being an equitable and diverse employer that fosters an inclusive culture for all our employees, therefore, all our employment decisions are assessed based on qualifications, merit, and business need. So, if you’re excited about this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification mentioned, we would still love for you to submit your application – You may just be the right person for this role or other opportunities at Cadent.
As a recognised Disability Confident Employer, we are proud to champion inclusion in the workplace and ensure to provide an environment that is accessible to all and supports individuals throughout their journey with Cadent. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the application process.
We place great importance on equity, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our employee communities Women in Cadent, Pride at Work (LGBTQ+), Embrace (ethnicity and religion), Thrive! (disability) and the Cadent Military Community can’t wait to welcome you!
Circle Back Initiative
As an active and proud member of The Circle Back Initiative, we aim to ensure that all candidates receive a response to their application, regardless of the outcome.
We will be receiving applications until the specified date above, though Cadent retains the right to close this vacancy early without prior notification, so it is advisable to complete your application at your earliest convenience.
Be part of something big. Help shape the future of gas for generations to come.
What’s next?
To be considered for this role, please submit your application with an up-to-date CV and our Talent Acquisition team will get in touch soon.To learn more about Cadent and what we do, visit our website at Home | Cadent (cadentgas.com)
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.