Head of Cloud Operations and Engineering

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Head of Cloud Operations and Engineering

Location:London or Manchester, Hybrid(Up to2days per weekonsite)

Contract Type:Full -Time,Permanent

Our Team: How we enrich everyday life

You'll be joining a collaborative group of cloud, digital and broadcast technology specialists who play a crucial role in powering Bauer Media Audio's products across the UK and our international markets. Together, we design, operate and evolve the cloud platforms that keep our live radio, streaming, digital products and on demand audio running reliably, securely and at scale.

You'll be part of a unified Cloud Engineering & Operations team - bringing together colleagues from Digital, Broadcast Technology and Central Support Services to create a single, high performing function focused on operational excellence, security and resilience.

The Difference you will make

In this newly shaped leadership role, you will define the strategic direction for Bauer's cloud platforms and ensure they are designed, operated and governed to the highest standards. You will take ownership of how our cloud environments run day to day, ensuring they remain resilient, trusted and available 24/7.

You will bring clarity where ownership is currently distributed across teams, strengthening our operational discipline and embedding best practice engineering. You'll be the senior technical decision maker during major incidents, the voice that brings calm and direction, and a key partner to executives, auditors and regulators.

This is a unique opportunity to shape how cloud engineering and operations function across a modern, multi market media organisation - setting the benchmark for reliability, security and operational excellence.

Your role

In this role, you will focus on building a high standard Cloud Engineering & Operations capability. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Setting a clear vision and operating model for Cloud Engineering & Operations
• Defining and enforcing standards for reliability, security and operational readiness
• Unifying Cloud Engineering & Ops across multiple technical teams
• Providing senior technical leadership in complex, high availability environments
• Owning 24/7 operational readiness, including on call structures and escalation models
• Leading major incidents with clear and timely communication to executives
• Driving measurable operational outcomes (availability, MTTR, change success, security posture)
• Owning least privilege access, secrets management and vulnerability management
• Ensuring a measurable, defensible cloud security posture
• Leading cloud contributions to Digital Operational Resilience, including DORA obligations
• Overseeing cloud resilience design, ICT risk controls and audit ready evidence
• Ensuring cloud platform data is accurate, auditable and available
• Partnering closely with Digital, Broadcast Tech, Security, Risk, Audit and Technical Operations
• Owning and refining SLOs and SLAs aligned to business needs

The skills you will bring

• Significant experience in Cloud Engineering and Cloud Operations
• Proven experience running 24/7 operations, on call models and leading major incidents
• Deep understanding of cloud security principles and operational risk
• Experience with IaC (Terraform), CI/CD and modern cloud engineering practices
• Ability to lead, develop and unify high performing engineering teams (c.10-20 people)
• Excellent communication skills, confident working with executives and regulators
• Experience supporting DORA or similar operational resilience frameworks
• Background in multi market or regulated environments
• Experience consolidating or transforming cloud or platform teams

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe's largest Publishers. From women's and celebrities' magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France - both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long term, with a consumer first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people's everyday lives.

What's in it for you

• You'll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider - Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You'll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing .

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email we would love to hear from you.

Date Job Posting Last Updated: 16 Mar 2026

Location: London, GB, NW1 2PL GB Manchester, GB, M15 4PR