Genium Selection
Director of IT Operations & Infrastructure
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Director of IT Operations & Infrastructure
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 own infrastructure, operations, and service delivery for over 15 locations globally while leading the infrastructure and service delivery team.
There’s a need to move from site/regional IT to group centralized, standardized, and measured technology investment, so here is your opportunity to deliver significant change and improvement. To do so, you’ll:
- Own the Infrastructure strategy & roadmap to standardize infrastructure to improve reliability and supportability. Engage technically on the best solution to fit business needs, 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.
- Ensure IT Infrastructure fits the needs of the business considering growth.
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Required Expertise
We’d like to hear from you if you can bring the following expertise:
- Significant IT Infrastructure experience, with technical breadth across networking, hardware, desktop, data centers, operating systems & Azure Hybrid environments.
- Firewall, Antivirus, BitLocker, and SIEM solutions, MFA solutions and configurations plus Zero Trust Network Architectures.
- Distributed Manufacturing Sector (essential).
- Created and delivered an IT infrastructure roadmap for a mid-size organisation.
- Delivered infrastructure change for an organisation with multi-country operations.
- Leadership & development of infrastructure and IT service delivery teams.
- Infrastructure contract management & commercially astute.
- Strong relationship builder and stakeholder management.
- ITIL & ISO27001 and governance such as NIS2.
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Additional Information
Salary: To £110,000 + Car allowance + bonus 20% + excellent benefits
Location: BRISTOL
Hybrid working – 3 office days per week.
Occasional travel, mainly UK.
Genium is acting as Recruitment Agency with regards to this vacancy.
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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