Network Team Lead

 

Main characteristics

Location

Oxford, Oxfordshire

Company

First Recruitment Group

Employment type

Permanent

Category

IT

Job summary

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.

Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

Oxford Nanopores sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere!

We are seeking an extraordinarily motivated individual to join us as the IT Network Team Lead, you will be responsible for overseeing and assisting in the operation and continuous improvement of our IT infrastructure. You will lead a small team of engineers, manage resources, and implement best practices to maintain the stability, security, and scalability of our technology infrastructure. This is a management role with a significant hands-on technical element in both design and implementation.

The details

Reporting to the Associate Director of Infrastructure Operations in the IT Services and Operations team, you will be responsible for:

* Provide management and technical oversight of design, estimation and implementation of additions and improvements to our infrastructure, aligned to the cloud-first ONT IT strategy and industry standard process.

* Lead all aspects of and assist in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of applications, cloud infrastructure, virtual infrastructure, servers, storage systems, network devices and related hardware.

* Supervise and assist in maintenance of ONTs IT infrastructure, ensuring efficient performance, availability, and security.

* Lead a team of IT professionals, encouraging a culture of teamwork, ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.

* Provide direction, prioritisation, and high-level management of the team workstack.

* Set goals and monitor performance to ensure the team meets operational objectives.

* Monitor system performance to proactively determine and resolve issues to minimize downtime and disruptions.

* Implement performance tuning and capacity planning to support business growth.

* Collaborate with key vendors and third-party service providers to procure and manage hardware, software, and services.

What we're looking for

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.

* Demonstrable experience (10+ years) in IT infrastructure management and operations.

* Strong leadership and team management skills.

* Broad experience of server hardware, operating systems (Linux and Windows), virtualisation technologies, networking (both physical and virtual).

* Solid understanding of cloud computing platforms and services including AWS.

* Experience in automated deployment and management of cloud, virtual and physical infrastructure.

* Experience with multiple monitoring and alerting tools, including operational processes responding to alerts.

* Experience in implementing and maintaining security best practices.

* Experience operating in and coordinating an agile project delivery process.

* Effective communication with senior stakeholders, user groups, team members and suppliers.

* Relevant certifications (e.g., Microsoft, ITIL, AWS, Cisco) would be a plus.

As well as technical skills, youre a motivated self-starter with a positive can-do attitude. You value teamwork and have strong communication skills with the ability to interact and engage with staff at all levels within the organisation!

We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.

If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today!

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job