Data Centre Services Manager
Description✓Summary of Role:
✓Accountable for the delivery of first-class enterprise-wide Infrastructure services ensuring the IT estate is well managed with effective lifecycle management so that technical debt is minimised and enables our journey to the cloud
✓The successful candidate will be dynamic and customer focused and have a strong track record of successful delivery in fast-paced, challenging environments
✓The role is part of the leadership team in Digital Technology, a function that embraces a leader- leader culture driving empowerment through the teams
✓The successful candidate will have a track record of leading teams with a focus on the growth of the individuals in the team and will be comfortable with commercial and financial responsibilities relative to the services they provide.
✓Main Duties:
✓Management responsibility for the Infrastructure Services team including financial and budgetary responsibilities.
✓Motivating and empowering their team to be successful
✓Forecasts appropriate technical skills and competencies required to achieve digital business objectives and ensuring the core IT functions are reliable, stable, and efficient.
✓Leading by example
✓Inputs to the development of enterprise technology standards, governance processes and performance metrics.
✓Actively manages and grows vendor and partner relationships.
✓Integral to the development of the technical strategy and roadmap
✓Technical oversight of all infrastructure, middleware and application technologies that underpin business capabilities.
✓Active capacity, lifecycle, and security management of the data centre estate.
✓Maintains currency on new technologies and platforms and provides direction on what emerging technologies should be introduced to ensure capabilities respond to the needs of the IT strategy
✓Candidate Requirements:
✓Essential:
✓Experience in leading technical infrastructure teams in an Enterprise capacity.
✓A leadership style that will empower others, inspire growth and success
✓Demonstrable understanding of industry standard best practices, methodologies and frameworks for Microsoft/Linux Technologies, Virtualisation and Storage.
✓The ability to provide expert technical guidance and coaching.
✓Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions.
✓Trusted and respected as a technical leader who can influence and persuade others.
✓Strong vendor management and partner relation skills
✓Deep understanding of current and emerging technologies and how other enterprises are employing them.
✓Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to non-technical staff.
✓Risk management Desirable:
✓Experience in working in highly regulated and controlled environments [e.g
✓Defense]
✓Extensive experience in IT Show more →
✓Accountable for the delivery of first-class enterprise-wide Infrastructure services ensuring the IT estate is well managed with effective lifecycle management so that technical debt is minimised and enables our journey to the cloud
✓The successful candidate will be dynamic and customer focused and have a strong track record of successful delivery in fast-paced, challenging environments
✓The role is part of the leadership team in Digital Technology, a function that embraces a leader- leader culture driving empowerment through the teams
✓The successful candidate will have a track record of leading teams with a focus on the growth of the individuals in the team and will be comfortable with commercial and financial responsibilities relative to the services they provide.
✓Main Duties:
✓Management responsibility for the Infrastructure Services team including financial and budgetary responsibilities.
✓Motivating and empowering their team to be successful
✓Forecasts appropriate technical skills and competencies required to achieve digital business objectives and ensuring the core IT functions are reliable, stable, and efficient.
✓Leading by example
✓Inputs to the development of enterprise technology standards, governance processes and performance metrics.
✓Actively manages and grows vendor and partner relationships.
✓Integral to the development of the technical strategy and roadmap
✓Technical oversight of all infrastructure, middleware and application technologies that underpin business capabilities.
✓Active capacity, lifecycle, and security management of the data centre estate.
✓Maintains currency on new technologies and platforms and provides direction on what emerging technologies should be introduced to ensure capabilities respond to the needs of the IT strategy
✓Candidate Requirements:
✓Essential:
✓Experience in leading technical infrastructure teams in an Enterprise capacity.
✓A leadership style that will empower others, inspire growth and success
✓Demonstrable understanding of industry standard best practices, methodologies and frameworks for Microsoft/Linux Technologies, Virtualisation and Storage.
✓The ability to provide expert technical guidance and coaching.
✓Ability to work creatively and analytically to solve business problems and propose solutions.
✓Trusted and respected as a technical leader who can influence and persuade others.
✓Strong vendor management and partner relation skills
✓Deep understanding of current and emerging technologies and how other enterprises are employing them.
✓Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to non-technical staff.
✓Risk management Desirable:
✓Experience in working in highly regulated and controlled environments [e.g
✓Defense]
✓Extensive experience in IT Show more →