Platform Operations Manager
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Job Location:
Huntingdon - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
4 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Circa 70k - 75k salary dependant on skills and experience
Permanent
Full-time with flexibility for part-time
Hybrid role working from Huntingdon or Lincoln
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from either our Huntingdon or Lincoln office.
Lead the Digital Backbone That Keeps Anglian Water Moving
Step into a pivotal role at the heart of Anglian Waters digital ecosystem. As our Platform Operations Manager youll 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 youll guide our Site Reliability Engineering Platform & Network Engineering and Managed Service partners to deliver high-performing secure and scalable platform services.
Youll 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.
What youll be doing
As our Platform Operations Manager youll be at the heart of Anglian Waters hybrid infrastructure ensuring our platforms and networks are secure scalable and high performing. Youll:
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.
This role gives you the opportunity to shape the future of Anglian Waters digital backbone while driving innovation reliability and operational excellence across all our platforms and networks.
As a valued employee youll be entitled to:
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
What does it take to be the Platform Operations Manager
Were looking for an innovative strategic thinker with strong technical leadership who can build enduring partnerships influence stakeholders make data-driven decisions and communicate effectively across both technical and non-technical audiences - all while driving outcomes and solving complex problems.
Skills and Qualifications:
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) - desirable
Why Apply
This is your chance to lead the backbone of Anglian Waters digital operations shaping the platforms and networks that keep services running reliably for millions of people. Youll have the opportunity to drive innovation champion automation and observability and influence how hybrid Cloud and on-premise environments are designed and operated. With real scope for impact leadership and professional growth youll play a key role in building a resilient high-performing infrastructure that supports the future of digital delivery.
Closing date: 4th January 2026
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Six Sigma
- Lean
- Management Experience
- Process Improvement
- Microsoft Outlook
- Analysis Skills
- Warehouse Management System
- Operations Management
- Kaizen
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Retail Management
About Company
We will always go the extra mile for our six million customers and their water.
