Infrastructure Projects Team Leader (1912)

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

 

• Do you have experience as a senior systems administrator, helping to manage and maintain server and networking infrastructure. 

 

•  Do you have experience as a technical advisor helping to translate business requirements into operational goals.

 

• Do you have experience with project delivery management, ensuring that project tasks are met, and that members of a project team are supported.

 

We are looking for an Infrastructure Project Team Leader a pivotal time of transition and change for the organisation.

 

What you’ll be doing:

 

In this role you will be the key project point of contract within the Infrastructure team you will be responsible for coordination of all projects that the Infrastructure team are supporting.

 

This will include, attending project scoping meetings, planning the resourcing of the team, translating business requirements into technical elements (such as server builds or security changes) running project meetings, delegation of tasks to team members, support and escalation for technical questions and helping to deliver technical project work yourself. 

 

You’ll have:

 

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam’s mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to he values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do and our feminist principles.

 

An ideal candidate for the role will also have experience in the following: 

 

• Strong sysadmin technical background
• Azure Public Cloud Network Technologies: Network Security Groups, VNET routing, VNET integration, Service Endpoints, Azure VPN Gateways, Application Gateways, Traffic Manager
• Azure Hosting & Data Infrastructure: Virtual Machines, App Services, Azure SQL, Storage Accounts, Data Lake, Azure Files, Azure automation.
• Project lifecycle management related to server infrastructure, e.g. design, build, security schedule, maintenance and replacement planning.
• Project coordination, regularly planning resource allocation on a project timeline.
• Assigning tasks to a small team of specialists.
• Acting as a technical escalation point to support sysadmin related tasks.
• Actively owning deliveries by solving problems and unblocking challenges.
• Communicating with business managers and staff to advise, influence and determine business needs.

 

We Offer:

 

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. 

 

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. 

 

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

 

Flexfam

 

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. We think this role would work particularly well as mainly home-based role with occasional travel to the Head Office. This would be agreed with your manager.

 

How to apply  

 

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and a covering letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.