Infrastructure Manager

Bournemouth University’s vision is worldwide recognition as a leading university for inspiring learning, advancing knowledge and enriching society through the fusion of education, research and practice. Our highly skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the globe, who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences that help to build our global learning community.

We are looking for an Infrastructure Manager to lead the Datacentre team, which consist of Microsoft Infrastructure, Database, Linux, and Server & Storage, underpinning all the IT services delivered to BU and therefore this role plays a critical part in ensuring the delivery of a highly available, robust, and secure service across BU.

This role must balance the resourcing of team leadership and management, operational IT incident resolution, and strategic project work across the Datacentre team. Whilst managing the day-to-day operation of the team, the role also requires an in-depth technical understanding of related subject areas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as Bournemouth University's lead technical expert for Datacentre technologies, both on premise and Cloud services including IaaS, PaaS.
• Lead the day-to-day operation of the Datacentre team.
• Accountable for the quality of Datacentre solutions & services delivered to the IT Services' user community.

Requirements:

• Extensive proven experience of managing a production infrastructure environment in a medium to large organisation.
• Experience of successfully managing a team of multi-disciplined, subject matter experts, including where it is not your area of expertise.
• Expert-level knowledge and experience of infrastructure technologies.

For an informal discussion, please contact Adam Bartlett (Head of Technology) via email: [email protected]

BU values and is committed to an inclusive working environment.  We seek a diverse community through attracting, developing, and retaining staff from different backgrounds to contribute to inspirational learning, advancing knowledge and enriching society.  To support and enable our staff to achieve a balance between work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.