Group Director – Infrastructure and Cloud
Job Purpose 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. Roles, Responsibilities, Duties Strategy and Technical Leadership - 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 Data Centre, Compute and Storage - 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. Enterprise Network and Connectivity - 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. Cloud Platforms – Azure and AWS - 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 and enforce cloud guardrails covering subscription and account structure, tagging, network topology, identity integration, and configuration baseli