Infrastructure Manager

Infrastructure Manager Merseyside Permanent £54,000 - £61,000 Flexible working hours/ hybrid working (2 days per week in the office) Excellent benefits Sellick Partnership are supporting a Public Sector organisation to recruit for an Infrastructure Manager on a permanent basis. The organisation is embarking on an ambitious customer centric, data driven, digital transformation journey. This is an exciting time to join a forward thinking, digitally focussed business. The Infrastructure Management will provide direction and leadership to the infrastructure operations teams, so they work effectively with the other functions across the department and in specifying, selecting, implementing, configuring, integrating and replacing current and new core IT infrastructure. Responsibilities: Detailed understanding of IT infrastructure, both on-premise and cloud infrastructures including server, storage and networking technologies. Demonstrate strong influencing skills, showing drive, tenacity, resilience and sound judgement. Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills with ability to build credibility and confidence in order to persuade and influence key stakeholders. Ability to focus on quality and results whilst driving the delivery of mission critical infrastructure in a pressurised environment with the ability to confidently support, assure and challenge with ease whilst maintaining good working relationships. Leading on a range of delivery lifecycles within an IT infrastructure, specialising in IT infrastructure lifecycle management, from initiation through requirements gathering, procurement, design, testing, deployment, service transition and change management. What we are looking for: Extensive and proven experience as a senior technical/operational manager with accountability for successful management of IT infrastructure within a complex, ITIL-based IT environment including external 3rd party suppliers and development partners. Extensive experience of working at a strategic level with key stakeholders, navigating top level organisational politics with evidence of managing by influence to achieve successful outcomes to complex business problems. Experience of creating and implementing continual professional development and training programmes for specialist IT technical staff, particularly IT operational environments. Experience of migrating On-Prem to Azure Cloud. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team a time of positive change. Please apply by Friday 18th October to be considered. Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.