Infrastructure Team Leader - Hybrid Working (Office/Home)

Our Global business Glasgow based client are looking for an Infrastructure (EUC) Team Leader. This a permanent, hybrid working role.

You will be one of two Team Leaders working in IT Operations and will be leading a team of 6 employees. The EUC team is responsible for the desktop experience ensuring the desktop build meets the users needs and is kept secure, up to date and performant. You should have a broad understanding of all technologies under the teams remit (SCCM, Application packaging, Desktop delivery methodologies and customising the user experience using tools such as group policy or Ivanti).

The successful candidate should have had experience in being the SME or a key stakeholder in at least 50% of the technologies used by a EUC team. As a team lead it is expected that they may act as the SME for one or two roles but their primary skill will be to manage the SME's under your control and act as a point of escalation for technical issues under the teams remit.

Responsibilities

• To manage resources delivering technology rather than delivering it themself so the ability to delegate and manage multiple workstreams and resources is key.
• To spend approximately 50% of their time engaged in non technical activities and these will predominantly focus around the management and development of the team and overseeing the deployment of new process or systems.
• To work with other team leaders and managers to help define the teams strategy and success criteria and to be a key enabler for the delivery of it. The teams success will be measured through operational metrics and you will be responsible for ensuring your teams metrics are met as well as being responsible for identifying new metrics and reporting on them to management.
• This will be a global role and there is a potential to be managing resource in multiple locations around the globe so good communication and task management skills are crucial.
• Risk and Control: Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with our regulatory requirements and internal policies.

Skills required

• Minimum of 2 years as a team lead withing a 3rd line team or examples of a Senior engineer who has team people management responsibility
• Minimum of 5 years experience in a 3rd line team
• Project management experience delivering BAU pipeline work and small internal projects
• Managing roadmaps for technologies under your remit including the upgrade path and dependencies
• Acting as a point of contact for escalations within the team and a trusted advisor to subordinates
• License management, Ticket management and escalations
• Acting as the major incident manager on occasion
• Representation at Technical change advisory board
• Ideas generation to take the team forward and with a focus on continuous service improvement
• Proven experience delivering technical solutions and being the named SME in core applications within the EUC space

Technical Skills

• SCCM infrastructure (creating / amending task sequences, expanding the environment as new offices are opened and configuring as well as day to day maintenance and monitoring)
• Packaging and deploying applications following the firms deployment process, this will involve liaising with test teams and owning the deployment.
• Creation, modification and optimisation of Group policies on desktop and VDI Environments
• Management and operational duties in Ivanti UWM infrastructure
• Deploy applications on App-V infrastructure and carry out daily support and maintenance to the system if needed
• Citrix XenDesktop 7.x, deploying and updating images, managing support and user performance issues and general maintenance of the environment
• MBAM, and physical device security and a good knowledge of security products such as AV and client deployment

Desired skills

• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
• Vulnerability management
• Ivanti suite including personalisation manager
• Scripting Technologies: Powershell/VBS/CMD
• Windows Server 2012/2016/2019
• Delivering applications via Citrix Xenapp/Micrososft App-V
• Experience of OS migrations
• Lakeside (SysTrack) administration
• ITIL
• Project Management and delivery of internal run projects
• Microsoft Endpoint Management
• Cloud Management

To apply send your CV as below. All suitable candidates will be contacted to arrange a face-to-face meeting.