Company

Founded in 2007, our client is an award-winning, UK-based provider of predominantly accountancy training and apprenticeships. They currently have over 500 staff based across 15 physical locations and remotely, and continue to grow rapidly. A few years ago, they secured investment from a private equity firm. They have an Outstanding Ofsted rating and were voted one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024.

Role Description

The Infrastructure Delivery Manager leads the delivery of infrastructure change programmes - spanning networking, cloud (Azure/M365), identity, endpoint management, security tooling, resilience/DR, centre fitouts and multi‑site centre technology rollouts. The ideal candidate must bring credible technical depth and the ability to direct, challenge, and coordinate specialist vendors and engineering partners.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of infrastructure programmes: network upgrades, identity modernisation, cloud and M365 platform uplift, DR and resilience improvements, security uplift.
• Review, interpret, and challenge vendor technical designs to ensure alignment with standards.
• Build and maintain delivery plans, RAID logs, dependency maps, change schedules, and cutover plans.
• Manage partner engineering resources and run delivery governance.
• Own technical delivery for new site builds, relocations, refurbishments and technology refresh cycles.
• Ensure all projects incorporate secure‑by‑design controls and embed security configuration.
• Collaborate with IT Operations Manager, Information Security Manager, and other teams.
• Ensure all new services include full documentation, monitoring baselines, operational runbooks, and knowledge transfer.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience delivering complex, multi‑site IT infrastructure projects (network, cloud, identity, endpoint, security).
• Ability to read, understand, challenge and validate technical designs across network, Azure/M365/Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Sentinel, Identity and Zero Trust.
• Demonstrable experience coordinating specialist engineers and third‑party delivery partners.
• Strong project delivery skillset (waterfall/agile hybrid) with structured documentation.
• Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills.
• Ability to travel to company centres when required.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience in a multi-site educational or regulated environment.
• Working knowledge of ISO27001, Cyber Essentials, and secure-by-design.
• Project management certifications (Prince2, AgilePM, PMP).

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