Cloud & IT Manager
The Cloud & IT Manager is responsible for providing both leadership and hands-on management of Cloud & IT functions within the organization. This role ensures that IT aligns with business goals, supports compliance requirements, optimizes cloud resources with a strong level of automation, and maintains a secure and efficient technology environment.
This role demands a balance of high-level vision and detailed operational oversight, making it crucial for the success and growth of the business.
Responsibilities include managing and optimizing the company's Azure Cloud infrastructure, supporting the development team with DevOps knowledge, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of IT systems, monitoring and managing cloud resources, developing and maintaining business continuity and disaster recovery plans, and ensuring systems and data are backed up and can be restored promptly.
A key aspect of this role is to maintain comprehensive information security policies and procedures, conduct risk assessments, security audits, and ensure incident response readiness, protect the organization against cyber threats and data breaches, and support SOC2 and PCI compliance efforts.
The Cloud & IT Manager will also develop and implement the company's IT strategy, aligning it with business objectives, provide a voice to leadership for IT investments and infrastructure, lead internal IT projects, prepare and manage the IT budget, and source and procure IT hardware and software.
This role requires a highly motivated, self-starting individual with a solid engineering background, preferably in Microsoft technology stacks, and a deep hands-on knowledge of Cloud technologies and especially Azure. The ideal candidate will have experience with SQL, database knowledge, strong communication skills, a hands-on attitude, and a process improvement mindset.