Platform Operations Manager

When you join EDF Trading, you’ll become part of a diverse international team of experts who challenge conventional ideas, test new approaches, and think outside the box.

Energy markets evolve rapidly, so our team needs to remain agile, flexible, and ready to spot opportunities across all the markets we trade in power, gas, LNG, LPG, oil, and environmental products.

EDF Group and our customers all over the world trust that their assets are managed by us in the most effective and efficient manner and are protected through expert risk management. Trading for over 20 years, it’s experience that makes us leaders in the field. Energy is what we do.

Become part of the team and you will be offered a great range of benefits, which include (location dependent) hybrid working, a personal pension plan, private medical and dental insurance, bi-annual health assessments, corporate gym memberships, an electric car lease programme, childcare vouchers, a cycle-to-work scheme, season ticket loans, volunteering opportunities, and much more.

Gender balance and inclusion are very high on the agenda at EDF Trading, so you will become part of an ever-diversifying family of around 750 colleagues based in London, Paris, Singapore, and Houston. Regular social and networking events, both physical and virtual, will ensure that you always feel connected to your colleagues and the business.

Who are we? We are EDF Trading, part of the EDF Group - a world leader in low-carbon, sustainable electricity generation.

Join us, make a difference, and help shape the future of energy.

Information Technology

Lead the Platform Operations function responsible for the reliable, secure and cost-effective operation of EDF Trading’s core technology infrastructure.

The role owns the operational lifecycle of compute, virtualisation, storage, backup, network services, operating systems, data centre infrastructure and core platform services. It is accountable for ensuring infrastructure services meet availability, performance, resilience and cybersecurity requirements while supporting the firm’s engineering, trading, data and corporate technology platforms.

The position drives automation, infrastructure-as-code adoption, operational simplification and technology lifecycle management, enabling Platform Engineering to provide stable foundations for application delivery, data platforms, AI workloads and business-critical services.

• Lead the Platform Operations team responsible for compute, virtualisation, storage, backup, network services, operating systems, patch management and core infrastructure platforms.
• Own operational performance, availability, capacity and resilience of infrastructure services across on-premise, co-located and cloud-hosted environments.
• Establish infrastructure standards, operational procedures and engineering practices that promote automation, repeatability and operational excellence.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management and infrastructure automation, reducing manual effort and operational risk.
• Manage infrastructure lifecycle, including hardware refresh, vendor supportability, patching and vulnerability remediation.
• Ensure robust backup, recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities are designed, tested and maintained.
• Own infrastructure operational readiness, monitoring, capacity management and service reporting.
• Lead infrastructure-related major incidents, ensuring rapid recovery and implementation of long-term corrective actions.
• Manage supplier relationships for infrastructure technologies, data centres, connectivity providers and managed service partners.
• Establish cost transparency and optimisation initiatives across infrastructure services without compromising resilience or service quality.
• Collaborate closely with the other IT teams to provide integrated platform services.
• Build and develop a highly capable operational engineering function with a culture of ownership, automation and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain resilience, disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.
• Manage third-party…