Identity & Cloud Infrastructure Lead (Entra-first)

Derby; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave (38 days incl. B

Flexible working environment

Discounted onsite gym

Cycle to Work scheme

Job summary

The University of Derby is seeking a Servers, Storage and Identity Team Leader to drive identity modernization and hybrid cloud initiatives. You will lead a team delivering secure, scalable identity and access solutions using Microsoft Entra and Active Directory in a primarily on-site setting.

You will shape our identity roadmap, collaborate with HR, Information Security and service delivery, and implement automation to reduce manual work while improving security and user experience for students

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering and supporting enterprise identity solutions in Microsoft cloud/hybrid environments.
• Proven ability to lead technical identity projects end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for identity, cloud and infrastructure services.
• Develop and execute a 2-year strategic roadmap for Entra-first identity architecture.
• Lead complex integrations between identity sources and services.
• Ensure security, disaster recovery and compliance across identity infrastructure.

Skills

Microsoft Entra ID

Active Directory

Hybrid identity

Zero Trust

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph APIs

Automation

Azure

Education

BSc in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Terraform / Ansible

Job description

The University of Derby is seeking a Servers, Storage and Identity Team Leader to drive identity modernization and hybrid cloud initiatives. You will lead a team delivering secure, scalable identity and access solutions using Microsoft Entra and Active Directory in a primarily on-site setting.

You will shape our identity roadmap, collaborate with HR, Information Security and service delivery, and implement automation to reduce manual work while improving security and user experience for students