Head of IT, DevOps and AI

Head of Dev Ops & IT - Cloud Transformation, Infrastructure Modernisation, AI Adoption - £100,000 - £120,000 + package

A world-leading building engineering software company is seeking a Head of Dev Ops and IT to drive a full-scale technology transformation across its Dev Ops and IT functions.

This organisation has recently secured major private equity investment to accelerate its transformation into a modern, cloud-first technology business. With a new CTO at the helm and full backing to modernise, they now need a forward-thinking Dev Ops and IT leader to make it happen.

Reporting directly into the CTO, you'll sit at C-suite minus one level and participate in monthly business strategy. You'll bring together an IT team and Dev Ops team under a single, unified function - and lead the migration of the entire technology estate from on-premise infrastructure to the cloud.

You'll blend strategic leadership with enough hands-on technical credibility to earn the trust of both teams, driving cultural and technical change in an organisation that is ready and eager to modernise after years of being held back.

• Define and execute the cloud migration strategy, moving all pipelines and infrastructure from on-premise to Azure (with potential AWS evaluation).
• Lead the modernisation of the legacy IT estate - including Active Directory, MFA, VPN rationalisation and Microsoft 365 optimisation.
• Unify and lead the combined Dev Ops and IT function, enabling teams to adopt modern practices and ways of working.
• Drive continuous delivery capability for new product releases, enabling faster and more frequent deployments.
• Own the security posture of the organisation, maintaining ISO certification and implementing Cyber Essentials Plus.
• Champion AI adoption across the engineering and IT function, embedding modern tooling and automation into everyday workflows.
• Partner with the CTO and senior leadership to shape technology strategy and contribute to broader business goals.
• Modernise desktop application deployment and distribution for a complex, large-scale software product.

• Proven experience leading both Dev Ops and IT functions, ideally having come up through a Dev Ops or infrastructure engineering background.
• Demonstrable track record of cloud migration and infrastructure modernisation, moving organisations from on-premise to cloud environments.
• Strong Azure experience essential; AWS knowledge highly valuable.
  
  Hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker at a leadership level - enough to guide and credibly challenge your team.
• Experience managing hybrid Windows and Linux environments.
• Security awareness across ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus frameworks.
• A genuine enthusiasm for AI and modern tooling - this is a culture-shaping requirement, not a nice to have.
• Comfortable operating at a senior leadership level, influencing strategy while remaining close enough to the technical detail to lead credibly.

Are you a technology leader ready to take ownership of a genuine greenfield transformation - unifying teams, migrating to the cloud and shaping the future of a world-dominant software business from the ground up?

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.