Head of Infrastructure, Platforms and Workplace

2 weeks ago


Huddersfield, Kirklees, United Kingdom Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland Full time
We have an exciting opportunity for
Head of Infrastructure, Platforms and Workplace with Saint-Gobain Digital in Huddersfield.

Reporting to the IT Services Director, you will be responsible for the ongoing management and support of all ofthe company's IT Infrastructure, including servers, network, data centres, cloud providers and end user devices.


You will work closely with the Architecture team to define the strategy for IT infrastructure, and with the Security team to ensure that infrastructure is appropriately managed throughout its lifecycle.


You will be managing a large team with 5 direct reports, working within a busy Infrastructure team of 29 people who support 10,000 users.


Experience needed:

  • Strong IT Infrastructure Management experience, with the capability to manage staff across a variety of technical skill sets.
  • Experience of migration from onpremise to Azure, and establishing the processes and ways of working to manage this in an operational environment.
  • Strong people management skills with experience of managing several large multidisciplined, multisite teams.
  • Knowledge of network architecture, and able to provide technical guidance to team involved in support, maintenance and project activities.
  • Experience of managing a large estate of enduser devices (desktop/laptop/tablet/smartphone), and management of an outsourced service provider to deliver this service.
  • ITIL Foundation certified and an understanding of where Infrastructure and Service management should align.

Responsibilities:

  • Be accountable for provision of IT Infrastructure services to the business and ensure that any disruption to service is minimised and not repeated.
  • Ensure that the infrastructure teams are supporting live service effectively and working collaboratively with other teams across IT and Digital to minimise service disruption.
  • Manage outsourced service providers responsible for delivery of end user device support, provision and management.
  • Own project management activities for assigned projects, ensuring that projects are managed through to delivery within time and budgetary constraints.

Staff Benefits

  • Competitive Salary plus bonus.
  • Company car or car allowance.
  • A defined contribution pension scheme.
  • 25 days' holiday + 8 days (bank holidays) increases with service.
  • Flexible working.
  • Staff discounts on high street and
    other great benefits.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.


Being part of the Saint-Gobain Group we pride ourselves on being innovative, customer focused, agile, open, engaging and entrepreneurial. We are also proud to have been named a 'Top Employer' for 7 consecutive years.
We are an inclusive employer and keen to hire talented people regardless of their background, abilities, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, what football team you support, taste in music, fashion sense or anything else thatmakes you, you

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