IT Team Leader / 3rd Line Engineer - Manchester (Central) £35k - REF 855

We are a full service PR, Marketing and Digital service agency winning numerous industry awards and accreditations. Our client list includes Global corporates as well as some of the UK's finest brands. We have fast-growing PR and marketing teams in city centre locations around the UK, which means we're not only well placed to support local businesses, but can use this insight and coverage to deliver pan-regional, UK-wide PR and social media campaigns for brands. Established in the early 1990's we have continually grown and as part of our overall strategy we are now looking to invest in a technical manager who will drive our internal and client support functions for our systems. All employees benefit from the following:

• Healthcare cash plan
• Tech allowance
• Flexidays
• Beer fridge Fridays
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Interest free loans
• Additional holiday allowance - have the option to buy or sell 5 days per year. After you have worked at the business for more than 3 years in your 4 th you get an additional holiday which is uncapped.
• Free financial advice

In terms of systems, we use the below:

• Veeam Backup and Replication
• Panda AD
• Office 365 - Exchange, Skype for Business, SharePoint, Office, Teams
• Windows 2012 R2 Server
• Active Directory & group policy
• Azure AD
• VMWare (switching to Hyper-V in 2020)
• Apple OS
• Apple iPhone
• TCP/IP
• DNS/DHCP
• Windows 10
• Meraki AP and switches
• Cisco switches
• Fortigate

We're looking for an ambitious IT Team Leader to join our growing team.

Based in our Manchester office, you will play a lead role in supporting the agency IT systems and business critical projects whilst developing the in-house IT Team. You will have an in-depth knowledge of Office 365, Sharepoint, Skype for Business and Active Directory.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience in a similar in-house environment, a passion for helping others and enthusiasm to drive the team forward. The role will also involve working over the wider network of offices in Birmingham, Edinburgh and London.

The successful candidate will have an opportunity to make the team in their own likeness, build the systems with autonomy and genuinely feel part of a business who embrace technology as their delivery model.