Platform Operations Manager
Platform Operations Manager
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Job Description
The Client Technology team own the technology roadmap that supports the Willis Client journey. The team has several inter-related delivery and operations workstreams across client portal capabilities and client records management.
Within this globally distributed team this role will be lead the operational excellence of our Azure-based production platform. This is a key role responsible for ensuring service reliability secure-by-design practices and continuous improvement across our DevOps and service management functions. Reporting to the Head of Client Technology within CRB Business Technology you will work closely with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment to accept into production scalable secure and high-performing services.
We are seeking a detailed oriented process minded experienced Platform Operations Manager to lead our service management and DevOps practices to strengthen our production acceptance proactively monitor and fix improve customer satisfaction and to drive continuous improvement across our platform operations.
The Role
Service Management & Reliability
- Own the cost health and performance of the production environment
- Lead incident response root cause analysis and postmortem processes
- Monitor SLAs SLOs and KPIs for platform services
DevOps & Release Management
- Oversee CI/CD pipelines and ensure smooth and secure build acceptance into production
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment processes
- Champion automation and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Partner with security teams to ensure compliance threat modelling and secure deployments
- Drive adoption of secure coding scanning and monitoring tools across the platform
Continuous Improvement
- Identify and implement improvements in operational workflows
- Drive initiatives to reduce toil and improve system resilience
- Foster a culture of learning and operational excellence
Reporting & Communication
- Produce regular reports on KPIs platform performance incidents and improvements
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders across engineering product and leadership
- Maintain clear documentation of operational procedures and standards
Team Leadership
- Manage and mentor a cross functional team
- Support career development and performance management
- Promote collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams
Qualifications
The Requirements:
Experience: Essential
- Proven experience in platform operations DevOps or SRE leadership roles
- Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure PaaS services (e.g. App Services Azure Functions AKS Azure DevOps)
- Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and cross-functional team collaboration
- Experience with monitoring observability and incident management tools
- Strong grasp of security best practices and secure-by-design principles
- Excellent communication leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Proven experience in end-user management
Experience: Preferable
- Experience with ITIL or other service management frameworks
- Background in software engineering or systems architecture
- Knowledge of security and compliance in production environments
- Certifications in Azure (e.g. AZ-400 AZ-305) or ITIL
- Experience with compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001 SOC 2)
- Background in software engineering or systems architecture
- Knowledge of General Insurance (London Market / Lloyds and Industry) products and services
Skills/other
- Excellent interpersonal skills including listening verbal and written communication with the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the Company
At WTW we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
