Senior Manager - Cloud Infrastructure

Competitive Salary plus benefits

We are looking for an experienced and visionary Senior Manager of Cloud Infrastructure to lead our Cloud Platform Services function. In this critical role, you will shape strategy, ensure operational excellence, and drive the adoption and evolution of our cloud platform as we enter an exciting new chapter of growth following our divestiture from Walmart.

Please be advised that this position requires attendance at Asda House in Leeds for a minimum of three days per week. We’re really looking forward to having you around!

What You’ll Love:

• Define and lead our enterprise-wide cloud strategy and vision, ensuring a secure, scalable, and future-ready platform.
• Promote and implement modern, cloud-native architectures and platform engineering practices to accelerate delivery and innovation.
• Establish governance, standards, and best practices across our cloud ecosystem to drive consistency, compliance, and high performance.
• Lead the operational management of the platform, ensuring SLAs are consistently met or exceeded.
• Own the technical change roadmap, working in partnership with engineering and delivery teams to modernise cloud capabilities.
• Drive cost optimisation through robust FinOps practices, ensuring transparency and accountability for cloud spend.
• Foster cross-functional partnerships, aligning platform delivery with security, compliance, and business priorities.
• Build and inspire a high-performing team, working across time zones and with both Asda colleagues and strategic partners.
• Stay ahead of the curve, identifying opportunities to harness emerging technologies that drive productivity and innovation.

What You’ll Need:

• Proven leadership in managing critical cloud platforms and services at scale.
• Experience leading agile delivery functions and realising value from cloud adoption initiatives.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, particularly in infrastructure, security, identity & access management, and policy enforcement.
• Strong influencing and communication skills, capable of engaging stakeholders across all levels of the business.
• Experience designing and enforcing effective cloud governance frameworks.
• Ability to mentor diverse, multi-disciplinary teams and foster a culture of accountability, agility, and continuous improvement.

If you’re passionate about enabling business transformation through technology, and thrive at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and innovation—then we want to hear from you.

If you have any questions, then please email [email protected]

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Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.  Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up 1.5 times colleagues' contribution (Max 15%)
• Company Car allowance of £8000
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream
• 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced  to theme parks and cinemas
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves