Cloud Engineering Manager WCC624220

Job Details:

Salary range: £79,005 - £88,149 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent 
Vetting requirements: Basic DBS Check  
Closing date: 22 June 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF 809 CONNECTED BUSINESSES

Digital and Innovation in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where creative and enterprising people put local residents and businesses first.

Today, Westminster is the most connected borough in London. But, when David joined us in the mid-2010s, small businesses were still struggling to get connected to fibre. Without gigabit-capable broadband, some companies even resorted to biking memory sticks around the city, simply to share files with clients.

Although still in a junior role, David took the initiative and successfully made the business case for £2.8 million of European funding to support connectivity for small businesses across Westminster. Feedback from businesses has been overwhelmingly positive as the project has enhanced their communications with clients. The new connectivity allows them to make video calls and work remotely. As the pandemic hit and many more people needed to work from home, it became clear just how vital this investment had been.

Fast-forward a few years. Westminster is leading the way for connectivity, as a result of the project businesses are thriving, and David is heading up a service of his own responsible for delivery of the Smart City strategy.

The Role:

As a Cloud Engineering Manager, you will make a powerful contribution to Westminster’s success, as part of Digital and Innovation who will work with services across the Council to deliver fantastic customer experience, alongside robust and innovative technology and digital products.

As a council, we work with multi cloud services across the organisation and this role is integral to its success. Overseeing the Cloud Team and the organisations development and production environments, you will manage cloud infrastructure across all services. Using open-source, cloud-based technologies you’ll enable Westminster to operate in an innovative and agile way.

The work we do covers all the basics but will require you to stay on top of emerging technologies. We want to be able to experiment and implement new technology wisely. To maintain a culture of proactive and continuous improvement.

You will be pragmatic and have a problem solving attitude to help us develop and deliver our roadmap.

We will also expect you to work to get best value from our digital data and technology partnerships ad work to help us learn and continue to improve the culture of our organisation. 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

You’ll lead the adoption and execution of Agile and DevOps practices to enhance team collaboration and ensure the continuous, efficient delivery of high-quality digital services.

You’ll innovate with Multi Cloud solutions. Architect, deploy, and oversee multi-cloud environments across Azure and GCP, focusing on scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure.

You’ll serve as the key point of contact between the infrastructure team and other departments, promoting alignment and smooth integration across workstreams.

Your excellent interpersonal and communication skills will allow you to build influential relationships with our internal and external users, suppliers and partners at senior management level. 

You’ll also be capable of coaching, mentoring, line-managing and creating a positive working environment in which equality and diversity are embedded in the team’s work, and staff are empowered and motivated to achieve good outcomes. 

You’ll be an active listener and possess the ability to explain complex ideas clearly to a wide range of audiences and support good communication within and from the team. 

It's important that you have a passion for building diverse teams and communities, and that you have experience of running recruitment. 

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role. 

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. There are 250,000 diverse residents, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people working here every day. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we service at all levels. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and are empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

We are a multi award winning and forward-thinking Council which appreciates that people work in different ways, and where our staff benefit from working in a range of flexible and agile working patterns.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

The Council and its partners are committed to achieving diverse shortlists for all vacancies at Band 4 or above to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. As part of this ambition, if you are from a Global Majority (GM) you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.