Network Operations Manager

We're working with a leading financial services organisation that is looking for an experienced manager to take ownership of its enterprise hosting and network environment.

This is a senior leadership position with responsibility for a team of engineers, operational governance, and the resilience and improvement of business-critical technology.

Responsibilities:

• Leading, developing and managing a hosting & network engineering team
• Owning the governance and operational performance of enterprise hosting and data centre environments
• Driving infrastructure resilience, disaster recovery, backup and business continuity
• Managing strategic technology suppliers and third-party partners
• Overseeing virtualisation, compute, storage and enterprise network infrastructure
• Ensuring infrastructure security and controls meet regulatory and internal requirements
• Improving operational maturity through automation and IaC
• Acting as a senior escalation point for infrastructure risk, resilience and operational issues

Requirements:

• Proven experience managing hosting and/or network teams in a regulated environment (ideally the financial services)
• Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, data centres and network operations
• A track record of improving operational maturity, governance and controls
• Good understanding of infrastructure risk, audit and regulatory requirements
• Strong communication skills and the ability to engage with senior technical and non-technical stakeholders