Genium Selection
Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations
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Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations
Salary: To £110,000 + car allowance + bonus 20% + excellent benefits
Location: Bristol
Hybrid Working
Our client is a market-leading UK company with global operations, which designs, engineers, and manufactures technology for specific markets. Innovation, customer focus, and strategy ensure its long-standing success and continued growth.
About the Role
As Director of IT Operations & Infrastructure, you’ll lead IT infrastructure strategy, operations, and service delivery for over 15 locations globally while developing the infrastructure and service delivery team.
Modernising the legacy/regional IT infrastructure & Ops to group centralised, standardised, and measured technology investment, here is your opportunity to deliver significant change & value. To do so you’ll:
- Deliver a global IT Infrastructure strategy & roadmap to standardise infrastructure that supports business growth, improves service, reliability, and supportability. Engage technically to select the right solution to fit business needs.
- Lead the delivery of infrastructure change, considering the pace and adoption of change.
- Develop the Infrastructure team into a group-wide function fostering collaboration & unified direction.
- Budget ownership & Contract management of all infrastructure including selection, negotiations, service delivery.
- Own IT support & Service Delivery with a focus on ITIL ensuring they meet business needs.
- Build relationships with stakeholders at all levels to facilitate the adoption of change and ensure successful implementations.
- Build strong relationships with 3rd parties and manage performance and contracts.
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Key Responsibilities
- Significant IT Infrastructure & Operations leadership for a manufacturing company, with technical breadth across networking, hardware, desktop, data centres, operating systems & Azure Hybrid environments.
- Still technically engaged to select the right IT infrastructure to meet business needs.
- Contributed to an IT infrastructure roadmap & strategy for a mid-size organisation.
- Delivered infrastructure change for an organisation with multi-country operations.
- Leadership & development of Infrastructure and IT support delivery teams on multiple locations.
- Infrastructure contract management & commercially astute.
- Strong relationship builder and stakeholder management.
- ITIL & ISO27001 and governance such as NIS2.
- Azure Hybrid environments, Firewalls, Antivirus, BitLocker, and SIEM solutions, MFA solutions and configurations plus Zero Trust Network Architectures.
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Compensation
Salary: To £110,000 + Car allowance + bonus 20% + excellent benefits
Location: Bristol - Hybrid working – 3 office days per week.
Occasional travel, mainly UK.
Recruitment Agency:
Genium is acting as a Recruitment Agency with regards to this vacancy.
About Genium Selection:
Established in 2003 and REC member. Personal, tailored, and targeted, our approach to recruitment aligns talented IT professionals with business so both can thrive. Talk to us about your ambitions. www.genium.biz
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