In Short
The VP of Cloud & Infrastructure is responsible for overseeing IT Infrastructure and Cloud Operations team, ensuring alignment with EVP of IT Infrastructure & Operations goals. They manage budgets, drive cloud and infrastructure strategies, ensure system stability and security, and support team development. They develop policies and standards and lead a management team to ensure engineering operational excellence.
What You Will Do
In this role, you will lead the Cloud & Infrastructure team, ensuring its objectives align with the strategic goals set by the EVP of IT Infrastructure & Operations. You will be responsible for managing budgets, timelines, and cross-functional collaboration, ensuring efficient execution of projects and initiatives. As the primary point of contact for executive-level requests, you will provide strategic guidance to managers and support decision-making processes. Additionally, you will cultivate strong relationships with business leadership across SEFE-Group companies, fostering collaboration and ensuring that cloud and infrastructure initiatives effectively support broader business objectives.
• Ensure adherence to central processes and guidelines across teams, facilitating communication and collaboration. Govern IT spending within the infrastructure functions and support the recruitment, motivation, and performance management of team members.
• Administer IT infrastructure services (cloud, network, compute, database), implementing best practices for infrastructure operations aligned with business and IT goals. Optimize, evaluate and recommend infrastructure technologies to meet business needs.
• Lead the cloud CoE on behalf of the EVP of IT Infrastructure and Operations. Deploying DevOps and Agile principles to bring innovation to Operations by evaluating new tools, technology and process. Deployment of innovation for both on-prem and cloud services, driving scalable and cost-effective infrastructure solutions.
• Ensure the availability and data protection of systems and critical infrastructure. Manage vendor relationships to balance cost, performance, and strategic alignment.
• Develop and implement backup strategies for cloud and on-premises environments. Ensure regular backups are performed, monitored, validated and secured.
What You Will Bring
You bring strong leadership experience with a proven track record in team development and performance management. Your ability to mentor and guide teams ensures high engagement and productivity, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. With experience managing mixed onshore and offshore teams, you excel at coordinating diverse teams across multiple locations, ensuring seamless collaboration and operational efficiency. Additionally, you have a proven ability to develop and implement strategies for cloud and infrastructure technology, driving innovation and aligning IT capabilities with business needs.
• Knowledge of technology market trends, contemporary infrastructure solutions, cloud solutions, and IT security
• Strong experience with Agile delivery practices and managing teams of 30+ staff
• Extensive experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, and prior experience in cloud-first organisations
• Expertise in financial management (FinOps) and resource allocation
• Familiar with networking, compute and database concepts and operating systems
About Us
SEFE, an international energy company, ensures the security of supply and drives the decarbonisation of its customers. SEFE’s activities span the energy value chain, from origination and trading to sales, transport and storage. Through its decades-long expertise in trading and the development of its LNG business, SEFE has become one of the most important suppliers to industrial customers in Europe, with an annual sales volume of 200 TWh of gas and power. Its 50,000 customers range from small businesses to municipalities and multinational organisations. By investing in clean energies and especially in the hydrogen ecosystem, SEFE is contributing to the energy transition. The company employs around 2,000 people globally and is owned by the Federal Government of Germany.
Join SEFE and help us secure gas supply across Europe and shape a better, more sustainable tomorrow.
Securing energy – now and for the future.
Our Benefits
We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment that embraces diversity and fosters the development of knowledge, skills and experience. Whatever your role, you’ll find an open, welcoming atmosphere that empowers you, and recognises your contribution. We offer a competitive starting salary supported by a comprehensive, and broad reaching benefits package which includes:
• Bonus earning potential
• Non-contributory pension
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and 2 volunteering days
• Buy / sell holidays
• Life assurance
• Medical and dental insurance
• Range of optional flexible benefits
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