IT Manager
Morson Group
Manchester, United Kingdom
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Compensation
£ 80KJob location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Content Delivery Networks
Cloud Computing
DevOps
Monitoring of Systems
Performance Tuning
Reliability Engineering
Prometheus
Datadog
Data Logging
Grafana
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloudformation
Containerization
Kubernetes
Functional Programming
Terraform
Docker
Job description
Morson Edge are are looking for an experienced IT Manager to lead and evolve a highperforming infrastructure and reliability function. This is a key leadership role where you'll shape strategy, improve system resilience, and drive best practices across CDN, AWS cloud environments, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
You'll work at the intersection of infrastructure, performance, and reliability-ensuring systems are scalable, secure, and always available.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers across cloud infrastructure and SRE
- Own and optimise AWS environments, ensuring scalability, cost-efficiency, and security
- Manage and enhance CDN performance and delivery strategies
- Drive adoption of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Improve system observability through monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to support high-availability services
- Oversee incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
- Define and implement infrastructure best practices and automation
Requirements
- Proven experience in an IT Manager/Infrastructure Manager/SRE Lead role
- Strong expertise in AWS (EC2, Lambda, CloudFront, VPC, etc.)
- Solid understanding of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and performance optimisation
- Experience implementing or working within SRE frameworks
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (eg, Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Strong background in monitoring tools (eg, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- Excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills
Nice to Have
- Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Exposure to DevOps culture and CI/CD pipelines
- Security and compliance awareness in cloud environments