Are you an ambitious and highly motivated IT professional seeking a new opportunity at a successful and growing international group? If so, you will be interested in this exciting opportunity to join us as Group Infrastructure Manager at an exciting stage of our development.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Group Head of IT Operations, the Infrastructure Manager will be responsible for the strategic development and operational maintenance of an efficient ICT infrastructure across the Orbital Group. They must be customer service focused, able to provide a high standard of technical support for ICT infrastructure operations of the schools and act as second point of contact for all Network and infrastructure related issues.
The post holder will be responsible for defining and implementing key IT policies, procedures and best practices relating to all aspects of the group’s infrastructure systems, leading on improvement and implementation projects to meet the needs of the group and its users.
About you
The successful candidate should be capable of working collaboratively as part of a high-performing senior team. You should be a self-starter, motivated to identify improvement opportunities and finding and implementing solutions to realise these. You should have a wide-ranging experience and working knowledge across a variety of technologies, with an excellent track record of successfully managing an IT team.
Whilst knowledge of the educational system is useful, a willingness to learn about this specialist field is as important. Spanish language ability to a professional working level would be a distinct advantage.
Interested candidates should read and review the attached job description and person specification to understand greater detail about the role prior to making an application.
Skills & Responsibilities
Network Design & Implementation
Build scalable, fault-tolerant networks using Cisco, Aruba, Ubiquity routers, switches, wireless systems, and firewalls.
Security Solutions
Strengthen security with Fortinet, WatchGuard, and Palo Alto; apply policies, VPNs, and UTM features.
Routing & Switching
Manage VLANs, STP, link aggregation, and routing protocols for seamless data flow.
Monitoring & Troubleshooting
Use Wireshark, NetFlow, and SNMP to detect and resolve issues, ensuring performance.
Cybersecurity
Apply current best practices to defend against threats and breaches.
VPN Technologies
Deploy IPsec, SSL VPN, and GRE for secure remote access.
Documentation
Maintain diagrams, configs, and SOPs for clarity and continuity.
Collaboration & leadership
Align with teams and stakeholders to meet network needs and share updates.
Why join us?
Orbital Education focuses on delivering quality education to its students around the globe. We educate more than 7,500 people from 128 nationalities, sending them on to high quality universities. We are an expanding group with schools already in Spain, Hungary, Slovenia, Albania, China, Mexico, Ecuador and Qatar, with exciting plans to add new schools to the group.
You will join a strong, experienced and award-winning team, with specialist expertise across key areas of School Management and Business Support. Collaborating closely with your colleagues and Group’s Executive Committee, you will be provided with opportunities develop your expertise and exert influence at a senior level.
This is an exciting opportunity to:
Be part of a global community, collaborating with influential individuals and leaders worldwide, who have a wide range of expertise in both the international school market and business operations.
Engage with colleagues, business contacts, and networks of influential leaders across the globe.
Benefit from opportunities for professional growth and continuous improvement in practice.
Working at Orbital
As an organisation, Orbital believe in offering progression and providing exciting opportunities worldwide for all of their employees, this emphasis on personal development has been key to their success so far and shows a fantastic ethic for future consideration for the company and especially their IT teams.
This is a very rare opportunity for you to advance you career within a rapidly growing business hosting greenfield projects, an eclectic range of technologies and management, and the ability to work alongside inspiring colleagues and senior stakeholders on a day-to-day basis.
To discuss further hit apply or get in touch with Luca Valeri on (url removed)
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