Cork Location - 2 days/week on-site requirement
This role is pivotal in maintaining a secure, resilient, and compliant compute environment across a large multi-site campus. You’ll support 1,000+ users, collaborate with global IT teams, manage vendors, and drive infrastructure stability, security, and performance.
Your Responsibilities:
* Maintain stability, operational performance, and resilience of compute environments across the Cork campus, minimising downtime and incidents.
* Oversee security posture, including patching, antivirus tools, and compliance with global standards.
* Coordinate disaster recovery testing and support SQL environments across the site.
* Support global security initiatives and ensure required controls testing is completed.
* Engage with managed service providers and third-party vendors covering compute, SQL, and manufacturing systems.
* Participate in compute and network infrastructure projects and collaborate with cross-functional technical teams.
* Track and report compute spend, working with finance and IT leadership on budgeting and trend analysis.
* Communicate security metrics and influence stakeholders to follow IT best practice.
* Manage maintenance contract renewals, proposals, quotations, and vendor troubleshooting efforts.
Your Qualifications & Experience:
* 5+ years\' experience in compute-focused IT operations.
* Strong technical knowledge across Compute, Network, Security, and Workplace Services.
* Proven experience working with multiple internal teams and external vendors.
* Degree/Masters in a related discipline or equivalent industry experience.
* Certifications in areas such as Microsoft Windows OS, MS SQL, VMware, Cisco, Azure/Cloud.
* Minimum five years’ Workplace Services exposure. (Desirable)
* Strong stakeholder and vendor management capability.
* Experience supporting executives and senior leadership.
* Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
* Proven end-to-end ownership of problem-solving and solution delivery.
* Ability to influence across functions and communicate across organizational levels.
* Knowledge of teleconferencing technologies and broad IT/OT integration understanding.
* Awareness of IT governance practices and enterprise priorities.
* Prior experience with some or all of the following is highly advantageous:
* ESXi hosts, VMware environments
* Cisco switches, Cisco ISE
* Active Directory, Group Policy
* RDS/Citrix, Symantec, WSUS, BigFix
* Patching & vulnerability management
* Database management
Please APPLY directly or contact me on sarao@therecruitmentcompany.com / 016917002 for more info.
Posted 1 day ago
Reference: 264094
Location: Ireland, County Cork
Salary: €230 - €260/Daily Rate Contract
Classification: Information & Communication Technology
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