Senior Mng.IoT Cloud Engineering. & Infrastructure Enablement

Job Description

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

As Senior Manager – IoT Cloud Engineering & Infrastructure Enablement, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping Vodafone’s global IoT strategy. By connecting people, places, and things, Vodafone IoT empowers organizations to thrive in a digital world. You will lead the team responsible for building and evolving the infrastructure that underpins our world-leading IoT platform, ensuring Vodafone remains at the forefront of innovation and customer success in the IoT industry.

• Lead the engineering team responsible for designing and delivering the foundations of Vodafone’s Global IoT (GDSP) platform, ensuring robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure.
• Drive the strategic evolution and operational excellence of cloud and on-premises infrastructure, enabling the Hyperconnect modernisation programme and supporting Vodafone’s global IoT leadership ambitions.
• Shape the technology roadmap and champion transformational initiatives, including agile, DevOps, and large-scale cloud adoption.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of infrastructure and database operations, focusing on reliability, scalability, security, and cost optimisation.
• Collaborate closely with product, network, and security teams, as well as external partners and suppliers, to ensure seamless alignment and delivery.
• Manage compliance, performance, and cost efficiency, acting as the main point of contact for audit and regulatory processes.
• Build, mentor, and lead a growing team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Make strategic decisions on technology choices, investment, resource allocation, and vendor selection, directly impacting customer experience and business outcomes.

Who you are

• Deep expertise in IT infrastructure, with proven experience with cloud provider services (AWS, Azure, GCP), DevOps-tooling such as CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, Github, Gitlab), infrastructure-as-code approaches, role-specific automation tools and associated programming languages (e.g., Terraform), orchestration tools, software development frameworks/languages, container management, on-premises and cloud connectivities, virtualisation platforms, operating systems, database technologies (e.g., Oracle, MongoDB), identity & access management systems, monitoring tools (e.g.Grafana, AWS CloudWatch), cloud networking, cloud security, analysing cloud spending and optimising resources (FinOps tooling), implementing resilience and scalable architectures, network security (e.g., VPN, firewall, intrusion detection, web server security, database security), etc..
• You bring proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure projects and geographically distributed teams.
• You demonstrate exceptional leadership, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
• You possess excellent communication and presentation abilities, confidently engaging technical and non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders.
• You are a strategic thinker with a track record of balancing vision and operational execution.
• You hold a master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• You have 10+ years in IT infrastructure and database management (on-premises and cloud).
• You have 5+ years in leadership roles, including strategy, budgeting, and talent management.
• You excel at influencing senior management, simplifying complex technology challenges, and driving business value.

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What's in it for you

• Hybrid way of working
• Intensive Summer Hours (8:00 am-3:00 pm)
• Tickets Restaurant.
• Social benefits
• Flexible retribution plan
• Training plan
• 25 days of vacation + December 24 and 31

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.