An unnamed government department is offering £1,000 a day for an IT Director to run their cloud operation. That’s more than twice as much as the Prime Minister gets paid…

In exchange for the princely sum, the new director will be expected to ‘motivate’ staff and oversee changes to the software used by the department. It can be inferred from the advert that the department advertising the vacancy have recently been sold a lot of very expensive software packages and are desperate to hire some sort of unicorn figure to cobble them together into something useful. Prospective cloud computing kingpins need to get their applications in by Thursday…