IT Manager (Part-Time)

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This employer are looking to hire an experienced IT Manager to oversee the daily operations of their IT department and support company projects.

Part time - 3 days a week (days negotiable), 9:30-17:30

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced IT professional with excellent organisational and management skills, strategic problem-solving and decision-making skills, and a solid understanding of both budgets and data insights.

Along with a competitive salary and benefits, there is a flexible WFH policy based on the ongoing situation (though they may require you to be in the office during on-boarding)

Come and be part of something special, they would love to hear from you!

Key responsibilities

General

- Coding PHP/html/css/javascript - at least basic level

- Management of IT Infrastructure department

- Provide status update as requested for all projects

- Monitor all information/requests coming into the IT team from all sources & track, prioritise & follow-up to completion

- Sign-off projects with the key stakeholders, ensuring correct documentation completed & stored appropriately

- Develop & implement processes for checking & verifying the quality of project work & task completion

- Keeping Windows & VMware infrastructure running & maintaining with required upgrades

- Ensure that resources are being managed & utilised for maximum efficiency

- Manage all team members

- Allocate IT projects/helpdesk tickets as & when required

- Ensure that the current team understand their short & long-term objectives

- Steer the team to enable longer-term strategic goals to be attained whilst managing the short-term urgent requests

Experience

- At least five years' experience as an IT manager

- Good communication skills, both written & verbal

- Bachelor degree or equivalent professional experience

- Good project management experience

- Possesses a positive attitude & be prepared to work as required to meet objectives & goals

Essential Skills

- Windows Server & Active Directory

- VMWare ESXi and ability to work in fully virtualised environment

- Good knowledge of server hardware, preferably HP servers, SAN/NAS storage

- Zimbra/Postfix - deep understanding of mail technologies

- Experience working in Linux server (Preferably Ubuntu/Debian)

- Bash/Perl/PHP scripting skills

- MySQL - replication, clustering, optimisation

- Nagios, Cacti or similar monitoring systems, understanding of SNMP

- Good knowledge of networks, routing, filtering, port forwarding, vpn in hardware & software solutions

- Ability to secure networks & systems, iptables, sudoers, VPN, SSL

- In-depth knowledge of web technologies - Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Squid, load balancing & fault tolerant solutions

Desirable skills

- Puppet/Chef automation software

- MSSQL - ability to perform basic support, troubleshooting & query optimisation

- Java/Tomcat - ability to support java applications in jvm, web applications in Tomcat

- Asterisk/Freepbx- at least some understanding of telephony basics