Platform Operations Manager

Huntingdon - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Summary

Circa 75k salary dependant on skills and experience

Permanent

Full-time with flexibility for part-time

Hybrid role working from Huntingdon or Lincoln 2 day in the office

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 Infrastructure 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. Youll have teams operating at the crossroads of reliability performance and agility and be guiding our Site Reliability Engineering Platform & Network Engineering Teams and our manage service partners to deliver high-performing secure and scalable platform services ranging from cloud platforms to mission-critical on-premise technology across both IT and OT environments.

Youll be a catalyst 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 including:

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 start.

Ensure operational reliability and service-aware operations - overseeing Site Reliability Engineering uptime performance and proactive observability to reduce operational risk toil and enable self-healing platforms.

Develop people and partnerships - leading and coaching our high-performing teams building our internal teams capabilities and managing relationships with strategic partners to enable service improvement.

Champion continuous improvement and transformation driving DevOps automation and modern Cloud practices identifying opportunities to reduce cost and complexity and fostering a culture of learning experimentation and safe challenge for all.

This role gives you the opportunity to shape the future of Anglian Waters digital infrastructure 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 innovator a 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) (not essential)

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: 1st March 2026

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Circa 75k salary dependant on skills and experience Permanent Full-time with flexibility for part-timeHybrid role working from Huntingdon or Lincoln 2 day in the officeAnglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from either our Huntingdon o...