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Department Group IT & Security
Location Spain
Position Summary VP of Infrastructure Operations oversees strategy, design, and management of our predominantly cloud‐based infrastructure (AWS & GCP). The role is critical to the delivery of production services, enabling business growth and ensuring security and compliance.
Eligible Locations Applications are accepted only from candidates residing in the UK, Spain, Germany or Romania. Those applying from outside these areas will not be considered.
Responsibilities Lead design, implementation, and optimisation of AWS and GCP cloud infrastructure.
Define and execute a cloud strategy that supports scalability, cost efficiency, and business continuity, aligned to corporate objectives.
Mentor and lead teams of DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure Engineers, driving professional growth and high performance.
Oversee operational excellence: compliance, monitoring, alerting, incident response, automation, 24/7 stability,



capacity planning, change management, and performance tuning.
Collaborate with Security to ensure compliance with ISO 27001, ISO 27701, Cyber Essentials, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans.
Partner with Development, Product, Security and Business teams to understand and deliver business requirements.
Manage vendor relationships with cloud providers and other third‐party vendors, scanning for new products to enhance return on investment.
Contribute to budget development, management and reporting of infrastructure operations.
Qualifications Senior leadership experience in IT infrastructure with a focus on cloud services.
Experience managing multiple cloud operations teams across technologies, geographies and requirements.
Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, etc.) and GCP services (Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, etc.).
Leadership proficiency in DevOps too

📌 VP Infrastructure Operations (Madrid)
🏢 Digital Science
📍 Madrid