Head of Digital Infrastructure

Bangor University; Bangor; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution located in Bangor is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Leader to provide operational leadership for digital infrastructure services. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing large-scale IT infrastructure and a postgraduate qualification in a related field. This role offers a dynamic working arrangement, including some remote work opportunities, to aid work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a senior infrastructure leadership role in a complex organisation (10,000+ users).
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise IT infrastructure at scale, including 250+ servers.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the University's digital infrastructure services.
• Responsible for networking, server and storage platforms, and cybersecurity.

Skills

Leadership in IT infrastructure

Cybersecurity management

Cloud environments experience

Communication in Welsh

Education

Postgraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

Infrastructure management tools

Job description

Overview

Providing strategic and operational leadership for the University's core digital infrastructure services, the postholder is responsible for all aspects of infrastructure delivery—including networking, server and storage platforms; on-prem, cloud and virtualised environments; endpoint management; cybersecurity; and high-performance computing. This role plays a critical part in enabling digital innovation, ensuring business continuity, and maintaining academic and research excellence.

Qualifications

Candidates should be educated Postgraduate degree (or near completion) in Computer Science, STEM subject or equivalent professional experience and have significant experience in a senior infrastructure leadership role in a complex organisation (10,000+ users), preferably in higher education or public sector.

Proven experience designing, deploying, and managing enterprise IT infrastructure at scale, including 250+ servers (physical, virtual, containerised) is essential.

The successful candidate will be expected to commence as soon as possible. The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post.

Location and working arrangement

This role will be located on campus at Bangor. Through our Dynamic Working framework, there will also be the option to spend some time working remotely (although remaining in the UK) to support work life balance, which will be discussed further with candidates at interview.