Technical IT Manager

Southampton
2 weeks ago
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Technical IT Manager
Southampton
Hybrid - 2 days WFH
Must Be Security Cleared

Are you an IT Manager looking for a new challenge? Look no further, one of our long-standing clients is looking for a new Technical IT Manager to join their well-established business within the Smart Metering sector.

Our client is looking for someone who's experienced at managing a team and not afraid to get their hands dirty. As the Technical IT Manager, you will play a pivotal role in managing and maintaining their IT infrastructure, ensuring the continuous operation of critical systems both on-premises and in their data centres. You will lead a 24/7 NOC team and work closely with our outsourced SOC to guarantee the security and reliability of their services. This role requires a hands-on approach to technical support, process definition, and compliance with industry standards.

Benefits:

Salary: up to £65,000
26 days Holiday + Bank Holidays
Enhanced Pension
Death in service
Main duties and responsibilities:

Oversee IT systems at UK data Centres, ensuring reliable and robust service delivery.
Manage a UK-based 24/7 NOC operation of Networks, IT systems, servers, switches, routers and resolve incidents or issues/actions.
Ensuring adherence to Information Security Management, ISO 27001, and UK legal standards, especially Nations Infrastructure (CNI)
Manage recording and monitoring of Service Level Agreements(SLA) for all incidents/issues/changes in conjunction with the Services IT Head and NOC/SOC.
Provide first-line technical support when required and support remote users for hardware and software issues/improvements/changes/problems.
Prepare documentation and reports based on business requirements, incidents, and as per customer needs. Closely interact with project managers/technical teams/other stakeholders in the UK and India as per business needs.
Support and manage the UK IT Infrastructure upgrade, improvement, maintenance, new site readiness, and IT risk mitigation plan.
Support and prepare IT hardware requirements for optimal costs for required performance. Planning and presenting the budget for approval as per work assignment. Be willing to travel to the data centres when called upon to do so. This might occur during out-of-office and unsociable hours, though as a rule, the NOC team reporting to this role will attend sites when required.
Manage raising and tracking purchase requisitions and ensure the purchase orders arrive from the supplier. Coordinate & ensure that the goods are deployed as planned.
Key job requirements:

Ensuring SLA-based problem resolution for priority incident-related data services for NOC & SOC in the UK.
Timely (as planned) support enhancement & establishment of IT Infrastructure /support services function for all IT-enabled service-related queries.
Effectively supporting the Helpdesk in resolving priority incidents and satisfactory closure with customers.
Ensuring the effective implementation/ mapping of NOC and SOC processes to support UK service business.
Keeping the team motivated.
Working as per company behaviors and beliefs.
Compliance with standards as mentioned above.

To apply for this role please call (phone number removed), send your CV to or hit apply

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy

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