Head of IT

£60,000 to £70,000 per year, generous pension, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 17/04/2026

About this job

Head of IT Gloucester - Hybrid (2 days per week on site). This is a strategic role looking for a well rounded IT Manager with experience in IT operations (infrastructure, service desk, networking), software development and testing. You will be a key member of the leadership team and play an important role in the smooth running of the department and its operation.

The tech stack is Microsoft focused and requires experience working in hybrid and cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Managing cross functional IT department operations
• Infrastructure, service desk, and software
• Managing team performance and continuous professional development of members
• Vendor management, resource planning
• Continuous improvement of the IT department as a whole
• Infrastructure, network, cloud environment, business systems, and applications
• Budgets, forecasting and reporting of performance analytics
• Stakeholder communication
• Information security, cyber security, governance, risk and compliance
• Responsible for DR and backup strategy
• Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and risks, communicate appropriately
• Formulate and deliver the technology roadmap
• Project management and delivery - oversee the SDLC and STLC

Required skills and experience

• Cross functional senior strategic leadership
• Hands on experience in virtualisation, network administration, infrastructure, server maintenance
• Governance, risk and compliance, cyber security management
• RAID logs, ITIL, ITSM, SDLC, STLC, agile methodology
• Project management, performance reporting

Desirable

• Experience working in regulated environments
• Experience with ISO27001

This is an urgent role, please apply quoting reference AR102985 to be considered.

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

We can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position.