Information Technology Manager

InfraView - Specialist Cloud & IT Infrastructure Technology Recruitment; Fraddam; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Car allowance

Job summary

InfraView - Specialist Cloud & IT Infrastructure Technology Recruitment is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Manager to lead a large technical team and own a strategic infrastructure practice across Operations and Professional Services.

The role is home-based with regular travel mainly across southern England. You will provide technical leadership, set engineering standards, and drive resilience and scalable solutions in enterprise datacentre environments.

Qualifications

• Must have SC clearance or be eligible to obtain.
• Senior Infrastructure leadership background with responsibility for large teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a technical team of ~100 engineers across Infrastructure Operations and Professional Services.
• Set technical strategy, standards, reference architectures and patterns for the infrastructure domain.
• Provide leadership across Windows Server, VMware, virtualization, datacentre storage and Linux.
• Oversee Windows/Microsoft infrastructure in complex enterprise environments.
• Drive robust, scalable, highly available enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Manage stakeholders at senior leadership level.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Stakeholder mgmt

Strategic planning

IT governance

Tools

VMware vSphere/ESXi

Storage arrays

Windows Server

Linux servers

Job description

Infrastructure Manager – £90,000 - £110,000 + Bonus + Car Allowance – Home Based with travel

MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE WORKING IN THE DEFENCE SECTOR

Are you a senior Infrastructure leader with a strong technical background across Windows, VMware, datacentre technologies, storage and Linux, and experience managing large technical teams across both Operations and Professional Services?

We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Manager to take ownership of a strategically important infrastructure practice, providing technical leadership, operational direction and people management across a team of approximately 100 engineers and technical specialists.

This is a home-based role, with regular travel, mainly across southern England, required for customer engagement, team collaboration and key business meetings.

Security Clearance

Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be able to get SC Cleared.

What You'll Be Doing

• There is NO hands-on requirement in the position, but you must have a strong technical understanding of core infrastructure and come from a solid infrastructure engineering, architecture or leadership background.
• Leading, managing and developing a technical team of approximately 30 engineers and specialists across Infrastructure Operations and Professional Services.
• Providing senior technical leadership across the core infrastructure capability.
• Setting the technical strategy, engineering standards, reference architectures and approved technology patterns across the infrastructure domain.
• Providing technical leadership across Windows Server, VMware, virtualisation, physical servers, datacentre infrastructure, storage and Linux.
• Driving technical excellence across enterprise infrastructure platforms and ensuring robust, scalable and highly available solutions.
• Providing leadership across VMware vSphere/ESXi, virtualisation platforms and supporting infrastructure technologies.
• Overseeing the design and operation of Windows Server and Microsoft infrastructure across complex enterprise environments.
• Providing technical leadership around enterprise storage, SAN/NAS and data storage technologies.
• Proven experience in a senior Infrastructure Leadership, Capability Lead, Practice Lead, Head of Infrastructure or similar technical leadership role.
• Experience managing and developing a team of approximately 100 people or a similarly sized technical function.
• Strong technical background across core infrastructure and enterprise datacentre environments.
• Strong knowledge of Windows Server and Microsoft infrastructure technologies.
• Strong experience across VMware vSphere, ESXi and enterprise virtualisation.
• Strong understanding of physical and virtual server infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of Linux server technologies and enterprise Linux environments.
• Experience working within complex datacentre environments, covering compute, storage, virtualisation and supporting infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure architecture, availability, resilience, capacity and performance.
• Experience managing technical teams across both Operations / Managed Services and Professional Services.
• Excellent stakeholder and customer management skills, with the ability to operate at senior leadership level.

This is a great position, managing a great team with tons of opportunity!