This is a role with real substance. The foundations are in place, but there's a clear opportunity to shape, mature and lead across infrastructure, cloud, security, and supplier management.
The Opportunity
You'll be stepping into an established team to provide technical guidance to the small existing team, whilst remaining hands on yourself.
You'll play a key role in:
Strengthening security practices and making better use of existing tooling
Bringing structure to infrastructure and cloud operations
Improving resilience, documentation, and disaster recovery capability
Working with the Head of Operations to take back control from suppliers and ensuring quality service and better value for money
Contributing to cloud and platform strategy (Azure-focused) The environment has a need for someone who can simplify, stabilise, and modernise.
What You'll Be Doing
Leading day-to-day infrastructure and platform operations (Azure, M365)
Supporting the development of a team of 3 engineers - bringing structure, coaching, and accountability
Owning operational security (patching, vulnerabilities, access controls, audits)
Driving improvements in monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery
Working closely with suppliers
Supporting cloud journey decisions with technical knowledge
Bringing greater visibility, documentation, and operational discipline This is a hands-on role, so you'll need to be comfortable being close to the tech while also stepping up as a Senior member of the team.
What We're Looking For
Strong infrastructure background with exposure to on-premise, Azure, Microsoft and O365 stack
Experience coaching or mentoring engineers in a hands-on environment
Someone confident enough to challenge, but pragmatic in approach
A people-focused leader who can bring a team with them
Solid understanding of security fundamentals in an operational setting
Experience working in multi-site environments
Exposure to Azure services Logic Apps / Data Factory, or low/no-code tooling This role is part of an on-call rota which is currently 1 in 10 for P1 incidents*
*This rota may be subject to change frequency given seniority.
Permanent position
Coventry based office
Hybrid working - 2 days office, 3 days remote
Salary £55,000 - £60,000
28 days holidays + Bank Holidays, holiday buy/sell scheme, company pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, death in service, employee assistance programme, occupational health provider service.
We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.
We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters
Salary description
£55000.00 - £60000.00 per year