IT Manager East Midlands – market rate

IT Manager – Leicester, East Midlands – market rate

Location:

East Midlands

Industry: IT

Salary: market rate + benefits

Posted: 19/04/2018

A specialist software provider based in Leicester is looking for an IT Manager with specialist infrastructure knowledge to join the growing IT department. Along with this infrastructure know‑how, you will bring strong man‑management skills and experience heading up teams and the duties attached.

With a growing support function, you will have a number of networking and infrastructure 1st, 2nd and 3rd line analysts below you as well as specialists based around virtualisation as well as physical servers and experience managing Windows and Microsoft environments. The successful candidate will report directly to the Head of IT and be a key decision maker as well as be responsible for your own budget.

Further duties include dealing with 3rd party suppliers and vendors covering supplier management and license renewals. Ultimately you will be responsible for the infrastructure of the organization moving forward – the management and delivery of a reliable IT infrastructure and be accountable for its availability and performance. Team management duties will include development of the team (hiring, firing, training, one‑on‑ones, etc.).

• Commercial experience in a similar IT Manager or Infrastructure Manager position
• Windows & Microsoft environments
• ITIL embracer and believer
• VMWare, virtual and physical server management, SQL Server and databases
• ISO
  27001 policies & procedures or similar security compliance
• Team management – team well‑being, hiring/firing, training

• IAAS, PAAS or SAAS
• Windows migrations

My client is offering a competitive salary plus benefits as well as the standard business hours for this role.

This role is based in Leicester which is easily accessible from surrounding East Midlands areas such as Nottingham, Burton on Trent, Loughborough and Coventry.

Candidates from all ages and backgrounds will be considered for this role.