Overview

Location: London • Type: Permanent • Sector: IT • Salary: £95,000 - £100,000 per annumWe are looking for a Head of Systems to join our team in London. The person in this role will work as part of the Global Platforms Leadership team and will be managing the Systems Delivery team as well as a key point of contact for the IT Operations team.The Head of Systems role holds day to day responsibility for the team which provides and manages the following technical services for the business: Active Directory; VMware ESXi, Horizon and VCentre; Windows Server; Windows client engineering; Intune; HPE server and storage hardware; Exchange Server; Windows clustering; M365 cloud services; Backup services; Service automation; Monitoring and alerting; and a variety of line of business applications.What you’ll be doing

Providing line management for the systems engineering team, covering performance management, goal setting and upskilling.Providing an escalation point for engineering and operations teams.Working with the business to understand their needs and upcoming projects, how IT fits into them and the right delivery.Playing an active role in the Global Platforms Leadership team, setting the standards for how we deliver services to the business.Proactively finding design issues with our current services which can be addressed before they become user impacting.Challenging and supporting the engineering team with design and implementation; you are their technical mentor.Work closely with our information security team to ensure new services do not create additional risk and address any identified risks.Key Skills and Experience

Experienced lead engineer / (hands on) architect with experience of leading teams, as well as contributing individually (this role calls for both).Customer oriented, with a passion for delivering excellent service and for continuous improvement of services.Excellent communication skills, able to communicate well over the telephone, chat or face to face.Professional manner with a strong work ethic.Working with suppliers to specify the right solutions for our requirements and manage the delivery of those.Flexible and willing to work outside of the core hours if necessary – the global platforms team is responsible for a large portfolio of business critical services and provides an escalation point 24x7.Able to adapt to and handle changing situations, one day may be designing integration for a LOB application into our existing estate, the next may be a new acquisition.Skills

VMware ESXi and VCentrePowerShell scripting and automation; storage technologies; backup tools (ideally Commvault, but training can be provided)Azure AD (including conditional access, SSO, application registration, provisioning), M365 and IntuneWindows Server / Windows clientWindows Certificate ServicesActive Directory (and associated technologies), Exchange Server, clustering and file serversSMTP; HPE hardwareNetwork routing / 802.1x / firewallingCisco Call ManagerMonitoring and alerting techniques

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