head of cloud operations.

• Reviewing and guiding architectural decisions for new and existing cloud services.
• Leading and mentoring the Cloud Architecture and Networking Architecture team across multiple regions.
• Partnering with security teams to ensure implementations meet enterprise security and regulatory standards.
• Analyzing application architecture and implementations, cost reports and collaborating with FinOps colleagues to optimize cloud spending and forecast budgets.
• Engaging with global IT leadership and market leaders to align cloud services with business strategy.
• Managing performance and relationships with global cloud hosting partners and service providers.
• Reporting on service health, risks, and financial performance to product owners and stakeholders.
   

you are responsible for

• Acting as the primary service owner, accountable for architecture, operations, cost, and continuous improvement.
• Owning the global Cloud Hosting Services strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective delivery across the enterprise.
• Leading the Cloud Architecture and Global Networking Architecture team, defining standards, direction, and governance.
• Embedding security and compliance into all designs by working closely with the Global Security Delivery teams.
• Driving financial accountability for cloud services in collaboration with the Global FinOps team.
• Managing external cloud providers and global service delivery partners to ensure service reliability, resilience, and performance.

your background

• A strong technical foundation in enterprise cloud architecture, networking, and infrastructure services.
• Deep knowledge of multi-cloud and hybrid environments, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Significant exposure to security, compliance, and risk management in cloud environments.
• A proven record of embedding FinOps practices into cloud service delivery.
• Multinational team leadership and management, both local and remote
• Global stakeholder and partner/vendor management
• Experience with project/program management and methodologies

• Solid understanding and experience of maturing applications and infrastructure deployments within cloud environments

your experience

• 12+ years general IT leadership 
• 7+ years enterprise cloud management
• 7+ years team leadership and development
• 7+ years project/program management experience
• managed $/€ 10 million+ global product portfolio

what characterizes you?

• Results-driven leader who is able to manage and motivate a team toward collective goals
• Have a wide variety of technical experience and expertise, are able to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly
• Financially focused and cost-conscious technology innovator
• Comfortable in a dynamic environment that is constantly evolving
• Self-motivated but also work well as part of a global team to deliver results
• Comfortable and able to present ideas to both technical and business stakeholders and facilitate strategic discussions

your competencies

Within Randstad we defined the following Leadership competencies:

• delighting people: connect people (client, talent, employee, society), building strong relationships and delivering client-centric solutions.
• performing today: resourcefulness - securing and developing resources effectively and efficiently.
• leading change: manages ambiguity operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• securing the future: drives vision and purpose painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others into action.

We live in extraordinary times. Technology, society, the job market - they’re all rapidly advancing, and opening up previously unimagined opportunities. With innovation driving the world of work even faster, many of us are left wondering: how can I find a job that works for me? 

Working at Randstad is unlike working at any other organization. At Randstad we put people at the heart of everything we do; this goes for our clients, our candidates, our employees and society. By combining our passion for people with the power of today’s technologies, we support people and organizations in realizing their true potential.

what do you get in return?

In return for your talent and effort we pay a good, competitive salary and offer attractive benefits. Job security and a great work-life balance mean we take care of each other. Imagine having an instant network where everyone wants you to succeed. And we have the numbers to back that up: we’re 38,280 employees strong, with over 4,861 offices in 38 countries. And 47% of our management is female. 

Randstad’s performance standards are high, but as a team, we’ll make sure you reach and even exceed them through a wide range of learning and development opportunities. Joining our team means getting to work with great people. Each of them is crucial to maintaining our open-minded, entrepreneurial, and vibrant company culture.
Sure you’ll work hard, but this hard work is also rewarded, and success is celebrated. It’s the culture you’ll find in any of our global Randstad offices. 

Our vision is to help as many people as possible realize their true potential throughout their working life. To do this, we are driven to become the world’s most valued ‘work life partner,’ with an ultimate goal of making a positive impact on 500 million work lives by 2030. It combines the core pillars of our strategy, our building blocks - strong concepts, best people, excellent execution and superior brands - with the strength of digital in the form of superior HR technology, customer experience and data. Combining 60 years of HR knowledge with technology, fueled by industry best-in-class customer experience and data, will enable us to provide hyper-personalized experiences at a higher speed and scale than ever. This combination of knowledge, human touch and technology will set us apart from the market by enabling us to see the possible in people and offering a truly distinctive life-long relationship with our clients, talent and employees.

Randstad moves toward a more global operating company. To support our vision and strategy, we recently introduced digital Global Centers of Excellence (CoEs). These are teams of skilled Global and Opco colleagues whose mission it is to provide Randstad with global best practices, global standards and superior digital capabilities for a specific focus area. The CoEs are part of Randstad Global’s Digital Factory. For more information about Randstad, see www.randstad.com.

For more information you can reach out to our recruitment business partner becky.suckling@randstadsourceright.co.uk