Cloud Infrastructure Manager

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Global Cloud Infrastructure Manager to lead the strategy, governance, and delivery of our global cloud infrastructure capability. Reporting to the Data Centre Director, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our cloud platforms are secure, resilient, scalable, compliant, and aligned with business growth and digital transformation objectives.

This is a highly visible global leadership role, responsible for shaping cloud architecture, operations, governance, and platform modernisation across a complex international technology landscape. You will also ensure cloud services meet the requirements of regulated and sovereign environments, supporting both operational excellence and compliance obligations.

This is a remote role in which we're looking to hire individuals from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, or the United States. There will be an expectation of regular travel to our global sites as necessary. In your home country you will be expected to have more regular travel to one of our locations in the country, location for each country as follows:
Netherlands – Pappandrecht
Sweden – Trolhattan
USA – Dallas
United Kingdom – Ideally Bristol however open to our UK locations.

Please note that this advert will close on Friday 9th October.

What You'll Be Doing

• Define and deliver the global cloud infrastructure strategy, ensuring cloud services support business objectives.
• Lead the evolution of a hybrid global and sovereign cloud operating model, balancing shared services with regulatory, security, and data requirements.
• Drive cloud modernisation, migration, optimisation, automation, and platform lifecycle initiatives.
• Ensure cloud platforms remain secure, reliable, cost-effective, and operationally excellent.
• Strengthen cyber resilience and recovery capabilities, working closely with cybersecurity teams.
• Own cloud governance, risk management, supplier relationships, and financial performance.
• Lead the successful delivery of cloud-related projects, transformations, and integration activities.
• Build and develop a high-performing team of cloud specialists while partnering with business and technology stakeholders to shape the future direction of cloud services globally.

Success in this role will be measured by the delivery of secure, resilient, and compliant cloud services that enable business growth while meeting the needs of regulated and sovereign environments.

You will establish a modern, future-ready cloud capability that balances innovation, operational excellence, cost efficiency, and cyber resilience across the global organisation.

What You'll Bring

Essential:

• Proven experience managing enterprise cloud infrastructure environments, must have experience with Azure.
• Expertise in cloud strategy, migration, operations, and service management.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, cyber resilience, incident response, and governance frameworks.
• Experience leading technical teams and managing multi-region cloud operations.
• Demonstrable success delivering cloud transformation and modernisation programmes.
• Strong commercial awareness and vendor management experience.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders.
• Strategic thinking, strong problem-solving capability, and the ability to operate effectively within a complex global and regulated environment.

Desirable:

• Experience within aerospace, manufacturing, defence, or other highly regulated industries.
• Background in enterprise architecture or cloud security leadership.
• Knowledge of modern cloud technologies including serverless, container orchestration, and hybrid cloud models.
• Professional certifications such as AWS, Azure, GCP, ITIL, TOGAF, CISSP, or CISM.
• Experience working within federated or multi-business-unit organisations and knowledge of relevant compliance frameworks.

What We'll Offer

This is an opportunity to shape and lead a global cloud capability that is critical to business transformation, operational resilience, and future growth. You'll work on complex, high-impact challenges while influencing cloud strategy, innovation, and technology direction across an international organisation.

Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:

• Competitive salary and remuneration package dependent on experience.
• 22.5% company bonus based on personal and business performance.
• £5,500 annual car allowance.
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme = 1.5x employee contributions (max 12%)
• Life Assurance 8 x salary.
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
• Flexible working hours.
• Income protection.
• Shopping discounts.
• Cycle To Work Scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family.
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment.

As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where your career journey may take you!

We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology. ​
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