Head of Infrastructure, Operations and Security in Greater London

Energy Jobline ZR; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global STEM-workforce consultancy is seeking a talented Head of IT Infrastructure, Operations and Security in London. You will oversee infrastructure and operations teams, ensuring the secure management of core technology services. The successful candidate will drive innovation and operational excellence. Benefits include a flexible hybrid working model, generous holiday allowance, and performance bonuses.

Benefits

Flexible working from home and office

Performance-linked bonus

28 days holiday allowance

Annual leave purchase scheme

Paid caregiver leave

Paid volunteering days

Private healthcare

Retail discounts

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure and digital workplace security.
• Hands-on expertise with containerisation technologies.
• Solid understanding of stateless, loosely coupled applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategies for cloud infrastructure and Security Operations.
• Ensure operational issues are identified and resolved.
• Design operational standards for security operations management.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure security

Experience migrating legacy services to cloud platforms

Containerisation technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)

Infrastructure automation expertise

DevOps experience and CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring tools proficiency

Designing self-healing systems

Understanding of RESTful APIs

Messaging and queuing services knowledge

Infrastructure as Code experience

Programming languages (Python, PowerShell, etc.)

Job description

Energy Jobline is the largest and fastest growing global Energy Job Board and Energy Hub. We have an audience reach of over 7 million energy professionals, 400,000+ monthly advertised global energy and engineering jobs, and work with the leading energy companies worldwide.

We focus on the Oil & Gas, Renewables, Engineering, Power, and Nuclear markets as well as emerging technologies in EV, Battery, and Fusion. We are committed to ensuring that we offer the most exciting career opportunities from around the world for our jobseekers.

Job Description

SThree are pleased to announce were recruiting for a talented Head of IT Infrastructure, Operations and Security to join our team based in our fantastic office space located in London.

As Head of IT Infrastructure, Operations & Security, you will lead the infrastructure and operations teams, taking full responsibility for the organisations core technology services including infrastructure, digital workplace, and IT security. You will ensure the secure design, management, maintenance, and performance of key systems such as networks, datacentres, cloud platforms, servers, and end-user devices. Working closely with business and IT leadership, you will define and deliver the strategic roadmap and high-level design for all infrastructure, digital workplace, and security operations, driving innovation, resilience, and operational excellence across the organisation.

About us

SThree is the global STEM-workforce consultancy. We connect sought-after specialists with dynamic organisations around the world. We advise businesses, build expert teams, and deliver project solutions to drive innovation across STEM sectors, helping them to Outpace tomorrow, together.

What are the day-to-day tasks?

• Strategies and Operational control: Develops strategies for managing the cloud infrastructure, Digital Workplace and Security Operations, providing technical leadership to optimise the performance and cost base of the services
• Monitoring and reporting: Ensures that operational issues are identified, recorded, monitored and resolved. Provides appropriate status and other reports to specialists, users and managers.
• Policies, operational procedures and standards: Designs and develops operational standards and procedures for cloud infrastructure, Digital Workplace and Security Operations management, aligning all operations procedures to service expectations and other quality standards.
• Maintenance and installation: Oversees the planning, installation, maintenance and acceptance of new and updated infrastructure, Digital Workplace and Security components and services. Defines safety and security procedures to be followed, and delegates tasks at the appropriate level.
• Incident management: Reviews incidents and breaches of service level agreements. Reports on findings and initiates improvement actions.
• Automation tools: Investigates and manages the adoption of tools, techniques and processes (including automation) for the management of systems and services.
• Problem Management: Conducts investigations of significant operational outage and provides recommendations for problem mitigation. Initiates reviews of infrastructure performance to surface & resolve problems and build infrastructure resilience.
• Service levels: Ensures that the Cloud infrastructure, Digital Workplace and Security operations team meet Service or Operational Level Agreements. Reports and presents service level information to stakeholders. Reviews of service level information and reports to stakeholders, recommending appropriate action.

What skills and knowledge are we looking for?

• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure and digital workplace security.
• Proven experience migrating legacy on-prem services to cloud platforms (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS).
• Hands-on expertise with containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Skilled in using templates and configurable items to enable infrastructure automation.
• Experience with DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines and deployment in distributed environments.
• Proficient in monitoring tools and techniques within dynamic, fast-paced environments.
• Capable of designing self-healing and fault-tolerant systems.
• Solid understanding of stateless, loosely coupled applications and RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with messaging and queuing services for scalable system design.
• Experienced in Infrastructure as Code covering design, security, configuration, integration, deployment, and performance tuning.
• Working knowledge of one or more programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, Java, C#, PHP, or Ruby.

Benefits for our U.K. teams include:

• The choice to work flexibly from home and the office, in line with our hybrid working principles
• Bonus linked to company and personal performance
• Generous 28 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays
• Annual leave purchase scheme
• Five days paid Caregiver/Dependant leave per annum
• Five paid days off per year for volunteering
• Private healthcare, discounted dental insurance and health care cashback scheme
• Opportunity to participate in the company share scheme
• Access to a range of retail discounts and saving

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