Senior Infrastructure Project Manager (Network Security/ Cloud)
A leading global financial services institution is seeking an experienced Technical Infrastructure Project Manager (Network/ Datacentre/ Cloud) to own and lead the local technology function and partner closely with regional and global teams. You will design, operate, and secure highly available network and infrastructure services in a regulated environment, with exposure to modern cloud platforms.
This is a technical Infrastructure Project Manager role covering delivering and supporting networking, security, servers, and core infrastructure services, with real ownership and influence over technology direction and delivery.
What you'll do:
- Infrastructure Delivery & Support: Oversee servers, network infrastructure, storage, and datacentre operations, including office moves/adds/changes and ongoing BAU support.
- Strategic Capacity Planning: Conduct capacity analysis and provide recommendations aligned to current and future business needs.
- Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on guidance across networking, security, and 3rd-party connectivity to business partners.
- Team Leadership: Lead the local infrastructure team across project delivery and operational support.
- Project Management: Deliver complex, multi-domain infrastructure projects end-to-end (design through go-live).
- Vendor & Partner Management: Manage relationships with hardware vendors, telcos, and community-of-interest network providers; support financial extranet connectivity.
- Budget Ownership: Manage infrastructure budgets, project forecasting, and cost optimisation.
- Disaster Recovery: Lead DR planning and testing with a focus on resilience and continuous improvement.
What you'll bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
- 7+ year's experience in IT infrastructure spanning servers, storage, networking, datacentres, vendor management, and project delivery.
- Strong enterprise networking and security expertise, including Layer 2/3 protocols, OSPF, BGP, DMVPN, and routing/switching best practices.
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP, complex NAT configurations, and cross-organisation connectivity.
- Hands-on experience with security platforms such as Cisco Firepower and Fortinet FortiGate.
- Proven troubleshooting capability across complex network and hardware environments.
- Experience in datacentre migrations, decommissioning, and cloud migration (AWS) is highly advantageous.
- Strong project and team leadership skills, with the ability to perform under pressure.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to translate technical concepts into clear business language.
- Fluent written and spoken English with solid communication skills
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