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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # IT & Systems Manager - **Company:** Cambridge Spark - **Location:** London, UK - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software as a Service, Collaborative Software, Cyber Security, Identity and Access Management, Local Area Networks, Networking Basics, Wi-Fi Technology, Firewalls (Computer Science), Gsuite - **Published:** September 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5872128060 ## About the Role * A deeper security background than the essential baseline - whether through formal qualification or hands-on experience - which would let us run a lighter vCISO engagement. * AI awareness: the judgment to assess AI access and connector requests and decide what to approve, deny, or escalate. * Lightweight scripting or automation. * Experience standing up or maturing an IT function from a reactive starting point. * Exposure to regulated or audited environments (government, NHS, education, banking). ## Description * Own a collaboration and endpoint estate that runs properly and securely. * Identity, access, and a joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle that is timely and auditable. * Run a reliable office network, infrastructure, and peripheral estate. * Own a known, governed SaaS and tooling estate, with shadow IT brought into the light. * Ensure Security operations are executed to a good standard, under vCISO-set policy. * Own a co-managed MSP held to scope and value. * Support and grow an IT function that matures and scales with the company. * Develop and support an IT apprentice Skills & KnowledgeEssential * Hands-on administration of collaboration platforms (Google Workspace, Slack) at estate scale. * MDM and endpoint protection across a mixed device fleet - the specific tooling matters less than the transferable skill. * Identity and access management, SSO, and the automation & improvement of joiner-mover-leaver processes. * Networking fundamentals: office LAN, Wi-Fi, firewalls, and connectivity troubleshooting. * Security-operations literacy: able to operate controls, run access reviews, and work within a recognised framework (e.g. Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001). * SaaS lifecycle and vendor/contract management, including holding third-party agencies to account. * Documentation discipline: leaves the estate knowable by others, so that no single person is a point of failure., * Not a CISO. Security strategy, assurance, and board-level risk sit with the fractional vCISO; this role executes security operations, it does not set or independently assure its own work. * Not a first-line support desk. First-line sits with the apprentice and the MSP; aiming this role at the ticket queue would waste the seniority the role is built for. * Not a pure architect. Strategy is expected - but so is hands-on ownership of the estate and the physical work that comes with it. Why This Role * A genuine opportunity to take an IT function from reactive to strategic and own it end to end. * Direct access to and influence with senior technology leadership. * A growing, profitable, values-driven business with a social-impact mission in education and skills. * The autonomy to do the role properly, and to grow an apprentice while you do it. ## Related Videos - [The Developer Workstation Blind Spot: Why Your Security Stack Can't See What Matters Most](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100254-the-developer-workstation-blind-spot-why-your-security-stack-can-t-see-what-matters-most) - [Smart, Connected, Unexpected: The Wild Side of IoT and AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1113-smart-connected-unexpected-the-wild-side-of-iot-and-ai) - [Thinking Differently - How to Make Money from Cyber Attacks & Cheats](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/745-thinking-differently-how-to-make-money-from-cyber-attacks-cheats) - [What makes Cybersecurity different for critical infrastructure?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/571-what-makes-cybersecurity-different-for-critical-infrastructure) - [Checkmate: 5 Real Incidents That Can End a Software Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100126-checkmate-5-real-incidents-that-can-end-a-software-company) - [Prototyping with Hardware and the Web](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/651-prototyping-with-hardware-and-the-web) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this) - [Dev Digest 138 - Are you secure about this?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/486-dev-digest-138-are-you-secure-about-this) - [Dev Digest 134 - Where pixels sing?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/477-dev-digest-134-where-pixels-sing)