Head of Infrastructure & Security | Azure | Reading

Head of Infrastructure & Security

Location: Reading

Working pattern: Hybrid, typically 3 days onsite per week

Salary: Circa £60,000 + excellent benefits

We are currently partnering with an organisation that is hiring a Head of Infrastructure & Security to lead a key cloud and infrastructure transformation programme.

This is a senior role with responsibility for platforms, infrastructure, security oversight, and team leadership. The organisation is investing heavily in digital transformation and needs someone who can help shape a more modern, Azure-led environment, bring greater control to a complex estate, and lead a small team through the next phase of growth.

Why this role?

• Opportunity to lead a major Azure and platform transformation
• Senior, high-impact role with visibility across technology leadership
• Broad remit across cloud, infrastructure, security oversight, and people management
• Chance to define the future-state environment, not just maintain the current one
• Join an organisation combining the pace of change of a modern business with the purpose and stability of a values-led environment

The role

This role will take ownership of a platform environment that has grown over time across multiple teams, systems, and providers. The priority is to create a clearer, more joined-up approach to infrastructure and platforms, while improving resilience, security, and long-term scalability.

You will assess the current environment, define what good looks like, and help lead the transition towards a more consistent, Azure-based estate. You will also manage a small internal team and work closely with senior stakeholders on the roadmap, priorities, and investment.

Core requirements

• Strong cyber security knowledge
• Strong real-world Azure experience in a production environment
• Ability to define what a well-structured Azure environment should look like for a specific organisation
• Knowledge across cloud services, networking, connectivity, compute, storage, backups, and security tooling
• Experience assessing a current environment, defining a future state, and delivering the strategy to support the transition
• Experience leading or line-managing technical teams
• Excellent stakeholder management skills

Desirable

• Exposure to Power Platform
• Experience working with a blend of internal teams and managed service providers
• Experience in a complex, operationally critical environment

If this seems like a good fit, apply today and one of the team will be in touch to discuss further.