Information Technology Lead

1 month ago


Oxford Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Parke Lane People Limited Full time

Our client, an exciting start up within the AI and IT sector are seeking an IT Lead to join their expanding team. Based in Oxford, on a hybrid basis this role is pivotal to the company’s success.

Job overview:

With a wide engineering team across multiple disciplines, there are a number of interesting and challenging requirements to meet. This role will be taking charge of the company’s cybersecurity, remote access needs and systems. There will be a particular focus on physical networking, identity management and resilience.

Responsibilities and Duties:

- Develop, propose and establish IT architecture, policies and procedures such as access, network, backup and restore as appropriate and support on systems implementation and management

- Establish and process software updates for systems, configure network security and participate in all hardware and software evaluations

- Maintain disaster recovery plan and ongoing monitoring of the appropriateness of the plan

- Plan, direct, and oversee the company’s IT requirements.

- Overseeing and implementing company cybersecurity processes

- Establish and maintain relationships with vendors and 3rd party support

- Responsible for upkeep and replenishment of company IT equipment

- Manage system onboarding and offboarding process for all new starters/leavers, consultants

- Provide ad-hoc first line support to company stakeholders.

- Provide training to non-technical audiences on procedures and policies to ensure IT and IP security.

Required Qualifications and skills:

- Experience in scaling IT systems as a company grows (esp. experience in start-up post-raise growth) and have previously rolled out SSO system.

- Strong networking skills; building-scale network planning and management

- The ability to manage the security and resilience of the business, balancing robust design and defence in depth against the need for a low-friction user experience.

- Certification and experience in Windows client infrastructure & M365-based active directory, RedHat Linux and various other applications.

- 5 years of relevant experience in managing IT environments and overseeing staff

- A 'can do' attitude, with a hands on approach

Desired Qualifications and skills:

- Linux client and server experience, particularly Debian-derived OS

- Experience of containerisation (Docker, K8S) and cloud deployment

- Familiarity with commonly used Engineering SaaS systems (GitHub, Atlassian) and EDA tools (Synopsys, Cadence, Ansys)

- Experience rolling out simple ERP/MRP systems; or experience operating in a manufacturing environment

- Experience of operating within compliance and security frameworks (ISO27001, SOX etc.)

- Experience working with domain hosting, DNS and site management.

- Modern site-site networking and remote access (e.g. zero trust)

In return, my client offers a generous salary, enhanced holiday entitlement, hybrid working (typically 2 days per wk in the office), and share options.

PLEASE NOTE: The company do plan to move to larger local offices in the future, these will however be easily accessible by train/car.



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