Head of IT Infrastructure

About the role
As the Head of IT Infrastructure you'll provide the resilient, secure, and scalable foundation upon which all Zellis Group services run. This role focuses on modernising our core infrastructure, ensuring networks run effectively, and ensuring robust connectivity, identify and access across the Group.

You'll build a high-performing, service-oriented function that enables our products, platforms and colleagues to "Unlimit What's Next."

In this role your key responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing all corporate infrastructure, networks and connectivity.
• Developing KPIs and SLAs for these areas and measuring performance.
• Strengthening identity and access management, managing the corporate AD and Domains, including leading on post-merger integration.
• Overseeing the VMWare estate, as well as Citrix, AVD, and other virtual environments.
• Working the DevOps to ensure best practices in CloudOps.
• Managing corporate VPNs and Firewalls.
• Overseeing disaster recovery and operational resilience for corporate infrastructure.

Skills & experience

• CISCO Networking and Microsoft Azure infrastructure certifications and experience.
• Successful track record of leading infrastructure / platform operations at scale in a regulated or mission-critical environment.
• Depth in two or more of: Azure core services, networking, identity (Entra ID / AAD), Windows / Linux platforming, storage / backup / DR, endpoint and device management, SRE principles.
• Demonstrable FinOps / Cloud governance experience with measurable cost optimisation and policy enforcement.
• Modern service management (ITIL / Agile / DevOps), incident / problem / change leadership and on-call readiness.
• Experience within PE-backed, multi-organisation Group environments desirable.
• Excellent stakeholder management and vendor leadership; clear, confident communication.

Benefits & culture

At Zellis Group (Zellis, Moorepay, Benifex, and Hastee) we power exceptional employee experiences by creating AI-enabled products and services within HR, workforce management, payroll, and benefits. Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. With over 3,500 colleagues across the UK, Europe, India and the Philippines, we have a significant ambition for growth (organically and through M&A).

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from of our colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we're proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position. With Zellis Group you'll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that's varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you'll receive:

• A competitive base salary, cash car allowance and bonus.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.