Infrastructure & Resilience Manager

Job Description

Join us as an Infrastructure & Resilience Manager! Lead the way in managing our critical UK infrastructure and data centres. Steer operational excellence and drive resilience.

If you're a seasoned leader with a passion for mission-critical environments and continuous improvement, your future is here!\n\nSalary: Circa £65,500 depending on experience\n\nDynamic (hybrid) working: 2 days per week on-site or to meet business demand\n\nSecurity Clearance: British \n\nRestrictions and/or limitations relating to and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team. DV will be required for this role.\n\nWhat we can offer you:\nCompany Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary\n\nPension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%\n\nFlexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements\n\nEnhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments\n\nFacilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more...\n\nHealthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more .

\nThe opportunity:\n\nWe are seeking an experienced Infrastructure & Resilience Manager to be responsible for our critical UK infrastructure and data centre environments. You will lead, manage and ensure the stability, resilience, security and long-term operational capability of those environments. The successful candidate will oversee critical operational functions across all data centre environments, will coordinate facilities service providers, capacity plan, govern plus contribute and participate in continuously evolving business continuity in disaster recovery activities.\n\nThis position requires a strong operational leader with experience in managing mission-critical infrastructure environments, leading teams through operational incidents including participating in a call out rota for crisis management and creating continuous improvement initiatives.

The successful candidate will also manage, lead and support the UK Data Centre Operations Manager. \n\nYou would be joining a highly respected, motivated, dynamic and supportive team. The team owns and manages the lifecycle of all Infrastructure & Cloud platforms in the UK.

Team members are actively encouraged and supported to generate continuous improvement initiatives to grow and mature the areas their own. To help do this, a strong emphasis is placed on gaining technical knowledge and experience via exploiting the extensive technical and management training capabilities of MBDA. The team is expanding their scope and influence whilst continuing to grow significantly.\n\nWhat we're looking for from you:\n\nEssential\nExtensive knowledge in the management and operations of data centres, hosting environments and critical infrastructure components such as server, storage, network, and cloud infrastructure environments\n\nStrong knowledge of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning (BC)\n\nExperience leading DR testing, failover exercises, and operational recovery activities\n\nStrength in applying robust operational governance, change control, and risk management practices\n\nStrong understanding of infrastructure & environment capacity planning and operational forecasting\n\nStrong understanding of:\nPower infrastructure including distribution, UPS and generator systems\n\nCooling and environmental controls\n\nBuilding management monitoring systems (BMS)\n\nRedundancy and resilience models\n\nOperational experience of a BMS; capable of interpreting the performance of electrical and mechanical systems\n\nCapable builder of strong relationships; an effective communicator and organisational leader\n\nExperienced in managing vendor and supplier management of external specialist third parties\n\nCapable of proactively managing incidents, problems and changes to data centres and infrastructure components\n\nCapable of ensuring compliance with internal security and safety protocols\n\nCapable of creating management information, operational & maintenance procedures, runbooks, policies and standards for the data centres, hosting environments\nDesirable\nITIL certification or equivalent operational framework experience\n\nExperience within highly secure and regulated environments\n\nFamiliarity with one or more of the following: ISO27001, ISO 22301, MOD DCC & SbD\n\nCertified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) or Certified Data Centre Management Professional (CDCM)\n\nExperience with DCIM and infrastructure monitoring tools\n\nExperience in managing multi-site, data centre environments\nOur company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given\n\nMBDA is a leading defence organisation.

We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.\n\nWe are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, , Neurodiversity, and more...\n\nWe recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.\n\nFollow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X (@MBDA_UK), Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information.\n\n#LI-RM1