Overview
Ref: SP879 • Location: West London, England, United Kingdom • Type: Permanent
The Infrastructure & Network Manager oversees all aspects of corporate infrastructure and network operations. This critical role reports to the Head of Service Delivery & Infrastructure and focuses on developing the Infrastructure and Network team while ensuring the integrity, security, and efficiency of the network and infrastructure systems. This position requires a strong leader experienced in building high-performing teams, fostering robust working relationships, and managing complex organisational structures.
Responsibilities
- Leadership and Management: Guide and support individuals and teams through coaching, feedback, goal setting, and performance management. Prioritise, assign and oversee departmental activities and projects to align with goals and objectives.
- Daily Operations: Ensure the department operates effectively and efficiently, delivering high-quality results.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Develop strong working relationships with other departments, such as Legal, Enterprise Risk, and Business Process Assurance.
- Infrastructure and Network Oversight: Manage all aspects of the infrastructure and network, including leadership, development, and daily operations of the team.
- Global Coordination: Collaborate with North American counterparts to ensure seamless global support coverage.
- Security Integration: Work with the Information Security team to implement effective security monitoring and incident response mechanisms.
- Network Design: Design resilient, high-performance network infrastructures, including data centers, LAN/WAN/WLAN/SDWAN, Internet, load balancers, firewalls, and management platforms.
- System Management: Deploy and support complex virtual environments, including SAN, HPE technologies, Windows, Red Hat Server OS, Citrix, and SQL.
- Incident Management: Handle the installation, configuration, administration, upgrade, and maintenance of complex systems, audit and change management, and out-of-hours incident escalations.
- Performance Monitoring: Maximise performance by monitoring infrastructure, troubleshooting service interruptions, scheduling upgrades, and collaborating with third-party support and IT engineers.
- Data Services Support: Analyse requirements and provide proactive cost and capacity planning for network, storage, and compute resources.
- Project Leadership: Lead projects to support capacity growth, upgrades, new features, and integration.
- Toolset Experience: Maintain infrastructure and network devices, manage vendor relationships, and recommend changes via the change management process.
- Security Reporting: Create and manage security dashboards to demonstrate operational effectiveness.
- Financial Management: Forecast requirements, prepare budgets, schedule expenditures, analyse variances, and initiate corrective actions.
- Security Frameworks: Implement industry-standard information security control frameworks using templates, implementation plans, metrics, and tools.
- Incident Investigation: Lead investigations for security-related events and incidents.
- Strong technical background in both hands-on and leadership roles within infrastructure and network capacities.
- Experience in solution design and implementation.
- Over 5 years of experience in global network infrastructure support, including configuration and maintenance of Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, wireless access points, LAN/WAN, and Internet technologies.
- Over 5 years of experience in global infrastructure support, including HPE Synergy and Alletra SAN storage, GreenLake, Citrix, and NetScaler.
- Proficiency with monitoring and administrative tools such as SolarWinds, Observium, Pager Duty, Data Dog, and Cisco ISE.
- Active network certifications such as CCNP or CCDP/CCNA, and preferably Microsoft certification in Core Infrastructure or Business Applications.
- Knowledge of Information Security frameworks and industry accreditations (ISO, NIST, PCI-DSS).
- Excellent communication skills for interacting with and presenting to stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing business needs while meeting deadlines.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Proven ability to build and maintain cross-functional and external relationships.
- Demonstrated leadership skills to guide and develop teams.
- Project management skills with a history of successful project delivery.
Qualifications and Experience
- Proven leadership experience in infrastructure and network management, with a track record of building high-performing teams.
- Extensive experience in designing and managing complex network architectures and virtual environments.
- Hands-on and strategic capabilities across security monitoring, incident response, and governance.
- Global experience working with diverse teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Relevant industry certifications (CCNP/CCDP/CCNA; Microsoft Core Infrastructure or Business Applications preferred).
How to Apply
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced PMO Lead to oversee and manage various transformation and project delivery initiatives. Please provide your details and CV accordingly.