Group Director – Infrastructure and Cloud

To provide leadership and end-to-end operational accountability for Modon’s core technology platforms – data centre facilities, compute and storage, enterprise network, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and the digital workplace. The role ensures these platforms are resilient, performant, secure by design, cost-effective, and capable of supporting the business today while scaling for future growth across the Group.

The Director will translate the Enterprise Technology strategy into an executable infrastructure and Cloud roadmap – setting engineering standards, driving operational maturity and automation, and holding strategic partners and service providers accountable for outcomes. The role works within the Group governance and architecture framework and operates a shared accountability model with Cybersecurity to embed and sustain controls across the estate.

• Translate the Enterprise Technology strategy into a costed, sequenced roadmap for infrastructure, cloud, and workplace services, aligned with Modon’s corporate priorities.
• Own the technical architecture and engineering standards for the platform estate, ensuring designs are resilient, scalable, observable, secure by design, and aligned to the enterprise reference architecture.
• Maintain a current view of the infrastructure and cloud footprint, technology‑debt position, and end‑of‑life exposure, with a credible transition plan and refresh cycle.
• Evaluate and introduce emerging platform capabilities – infrastructure‑as‑code, automation, AI‑assisted operations, and cloud‑native services, and where they deliver demonstrable operational or financial benefit.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with strategic infrastructure, cloud, and workplace partners, including joint roadmap engagement, escalation paths, and structured service reviews

• Direct the strategy, design, and operation of enterprise compute, virtualisation, and hyperconverged platforms, ensuring capacity is planned to meet demand and utilisation is actively managed.
• Own enterprise storage and data protection infrastructure, including tiering, capacity forecasting, backup infrastructure, and retention aligned to business and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain a structured lifecycle and refresh programme across compute, storage, and supporting hardware, with vendor support coverage tracked and gaps escalated.
• Ensure environments are consistently built and configured to defined standards, with configuration drift detected and remediated.
• Drive rationalisation and consolidation of legacy platforms, reducing footprint, licence cost, and operational burden.

• Own enterprise network architecture and operations across corporate sites – LAN, WAN, SD‑WAN, wireless, remote access, and internet edge, including inter‑site and cloud connectivity.
• Ensure network designs deliver required availability, performance, and segmentation, with capacity managed against business growth and new site onboarding.
• Manage telecommunications and connectivity providers against defined service levels, driving accountability for availability, restoration times, and change quality.
• Own network standards, documentation, and change discipline, ensuring configuration is version‑controlled and changes are tested, approved, and reversible.
• Support new developments, site fit‑outs, and asset handovers with the network and connectivity capability required at handover.

• Own the strategy, design, and operation of Modon Corporate’s hybrid and multi‑cloud estate across Azure and AWS, ensuring well‑architected design and consistent landing‑zone governance.
• Establish…