Senior IT Operations Manager
Posted Today by Airswift
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London, London, City of, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior IT Operations Manager role is a pivotal leadership position within a dynamic trading environment, focusing on the management of secure and efficient IT operations for critical applications and infrastructure. This position entails end-to-end accountability for IT operations, emphasizing automation and data-driven strategies to enhance business continuity. The role also involves budget management and service lifecycle oversight to deliver value across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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.
Key Skills:
- 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.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
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.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Required Experience & Qualifications
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
About Airswift
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.