IT Manager

**Our Client**

Our Client is a global leader in defense and a maritime-orientated high-end design house and technical consulting firm driven by a passion for solving complex, real-world problems. They deliver design, engineering and consulting excellence in a world of ever-increasing change: growing compliance, new global competitors, the pressure to do more with less, ever-faster innovation cycles and less time to exploit market positions or new technologies.

**The Role**

Our new IT Manager will closely work with our global IT staff, our APAC Managed Service Provider, and our staff in the region to provide IT support and service to staff, as well as enabling and supporting solutions with IT components delivered to clients.
- Engage with the APAC MSP, who:

- are responsible for local infrastructure on the office work floor, in server rooms, as well as co-located and private cloud infrastructure.
- provide on-site support staff, an APAC 24/7 online helpdesk, engaged account management, and professional project services to continue developing our infrastructure.
- Work with global IT staff (BMT Global Business Services):

- Ensure APAC requirements and interests are met for global solutions, stay abreast of the globally shared IT architecture, collaborate on implementing global changes.
- Provide additional support staff, a second line support desk, and access to business
- and client-facing IT solutions developed in other parts of the business.
- Support staff in the region:

- Support and manage development of the environment where they run projects, develop software and build data collections.
- Support and manage development of high performance computing and high end desktop environments for design and numerical modelling, geospatial and data analysis.
- Build a team and IT management practice:

- IT asset management, license management, issue tracking, etc. - BMT has been improving IT services in the region, but needs a more concerted approach and improvement.
- IT-related tasks should lie with staff that are properly trained, authorised and motivated to perform those tasks; improvement in organisation and management is needed.

**Skills, Experience and Capabilities**

Required:

- Proven practical experience in a similar role, including management and IT support services.
- Proven practical experience with the MS365 and MS Azure cloud platforms, both in use and management.
- Proven practical experience with managing and using MS SharePoint in particular.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a team.
- Demonstrated ability to develop practice and procedures with a new team.
- Technical skills and knowledge:

- Strong experience with systems administration and support of a networked environment that includes Windows desktops and servers, as well as Linux servers.

Desirable:

- Practical experience with the AWS cloud platform.
- Practical experience with virtualisation and private cloud technology in a mixed Windows and Linux environment.
- Affinity with large scale numerical computation on desktop and server GPU and HPC compute environments.
- Familiarity with any or all of the following platforms (in no particular order): MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Deltek Vision, Git/GitLab, VMWare ESX, IFS enterprise software, ConnectWise, ManageEngine, JupyterLab, MS Visual Studio, Atlassian Jira, PowerBI.

Personal attributes:

- Comfortable working with highly educated and independently working consultants, engineers and scientists.
- Strong affinity with developing new skills and knowledge quickly, to be able to work in a rapidly developing and complex environment.
- A team player and strong leader.

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