Venn Group is working with a Local Authority in London to recruit an Interim Infrastructure and Technology Manager, to deliver transition plans to create a sovereign service for the council and to build/develop teams across infrastructure, networks and platforms.
The Interim Infrastructure and Technology Manager run all infrastructure services in the council, ensuring high levels of reliability, security and availability. This includes developing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and optimising all new and existing datacentres, network, hardware, communication links (including telephony) and shared/enabling platforms.
This role will be inside of IR35 and will require onsite working in London on an ad-hoc basis.
Responsibilities of Interim Infrastructure and Technology Manager:
- Lead the infrastructure function for the council, including transformation of the council’s infrastructure from on-prem hosting into the cloud
- Act as the council’s senior escalation for infrastructure issues, building and maintaining a high standard of customer service
- Design and implement plans to ensure infrastructure meets existing and future demand
- Set and monitor performance against infrastructure standards for the council
- Lead suppliers to ensure optimal performance of outsourced networking infrastructure elements such as WAN/LAN, routers, switches, firewalls and anti-virus software
- Work with others to plan and implement complex infrastructure upgrade projects as necessary, managing finances and risks along the way
- Reduce the cost of infrastructure wherever possible, delivering direct and indirect savings
- Develop strategic and tactical engineering roadmaps for technologies and services in your area of responsibility, making sure that they are future-proofed and that the organisation derives maximum value from investment in technologies
- Work with and manage a range of third-party suppliers to ensure dependent systems are well-run and cost-effective
- Provide subject matter expertise and quality assurance where required to the team on key areas of the infrastructure environment, including but not limited to: Active Directory, Azure, M365 and other cloud, on-prem and hybrid computing and storage technologies
If you would like more information about the role, please contact Lisa Subhash, David Harney or Ethan Weatherby
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