Senior IT Operations Manager

Duration: 9 months Location: London

Senior IT Operations Manager is a high impact technical leadership opportunity within a fast paced trading environment, focused on secure, resilient, and cost effective IT operations for business critical application and infrastructure services.

Role Context

This company operates in the oil & gas sector and supports a major energy trading portfolio. The environment includes critical applications and infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on operational excellence, automation, governance, and service reliability.

About the Role

The Senior IT Operations Manager will hold end to end accountability for IT operations across the portfolio, helping ensure business continuity while supporting the transformation towards a more automated and data driven operating model. Senior IT Operations Manager will also contribute to service lifecycle management, budget ownership, and the delivery of value to the wider business.

• Lead IT operations across the trading portfolio and ensure services remain secure, resilient, and cost effective.
• Own the IT operating plan, budget, and service lifecycle.
• Drive the transformation towards an automated, data driven operating model.
• Hold service providers to clear outcome based performance.
• Lead operational readiness for new demand, changes, and projects impacting the portfolio.
• Analyse business functional and non functional requirements and agree for operate.
• Responsible for Information Risk Management and IT Controls compliance.
• Accountable for IDT General Controls and ensuring controls are in place.
• Drive the transformation Goals and Objectives within the team.

• Senior IT Operations Manager experience in a fast paced and volatile market.
• Experience across critical application and infrastructure services, including Endur.
• Software Configuration Management - Mastery.
• Software Construction - Mastery.
• Software Design - Mastery.

Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift partners with organisations worldwide to deliver critical talent across complex projects, offering global reach and industry expertise.