Infrastructure & Security Manager

Location: Coventry

Salary: per annum

Start Date: 17/04/

Contract Type: Permanent

We're looking for an Infrastructure & Security Manager to take ownership of a growing, evolving technology estate at a pivotal point in its journey.
This is a role with real substance. The foundations are in place, but there's a clear opportunity to shape, mature and lead across infrastructure, cloud, security, and supplier management.

The Opportunity
You'll be stepping into an established team to provide technical guidance and leadership.
Alongside leading a small team of engineers, you'll play a key role in:

Strengthening security practices and making better use of existing tooling

Bringing structure to infrastructure and cloud operations

Improving resilience, documentation, and disaster recovery capability

Working with the Head of Operations to take back control from suppliers and ensuring quality service and better value for money

Contributing to cloud and platform strategy (Azure-focused)

The environment has a need for someone who can simplify, stabilise, and modernise.

What You'll Be Doing

Leading day-to-day infrastructure and platform operations (Azure, M)

Managing and developing a team of 3 engineers - bringing structure, coaching, and accountability

Owning operational security (patching, vulnerabilities, access controls, audits)

Driving improvements in monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery

Working closely with suppliers

Supporting cloud journey decisions with technical knowledge

Bringing greater visibility, documentation, and operational discipline

This is a hands-on role, so you'll need to be comfortable being close to the tech while also stepping up as a leader.

What We're Looking For

Strong infrastructure background with exposure to Azure and Microsoft stack

Experience leading or mentoring engineers in a hands-on environment

Someone confident enough to challenge, but pragmatic in approach

A people-focused leader who can bring a team with them

Solid understanding of security fundamentals in an operational setting

Experience working in multi-site environments

Exposure to Azure services Logic Apps / Data Factory, or low/no-code tooling

This role is part of an on-call rota which is currently 1 in 10 for P1 incidents*
*This rota may be subject to change frequency given seniority.

Permanent position
Coventry based office
Hybrid working - 2 days office, 3 days remote
Salary £55, - £60,
28 days holidays + Bank Holidays, holiday buy/sell scheme, company pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, death in service, employee assistance programme, occupational health provider service.

We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters.