IT Infrastructure Manager

City Building provides a range of repairs and maintenance, manufacturing, construction and refurbishment activities for Glasgow City Council and Wheatley Housing Group’s citizens and customers as well as other public, private and third sector organisations.

City Building operates both the largest construction craft apprenticeship programme in Scotland, and Royal Strathclyde Blindcraft Industries (RSBi), one of the largest supported manufacturing businesses in Europe, around 200 people, more than 50% of whom have a disability.

Our accreditations include, ISO45001, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001:2015. We are current recipients of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promoting Opportunity and Investors in Young People Platinum award. Both these accolades recognise our focus on investing in and growing a skilled staff base.

We are seeking an experienced and strategic IT Infrastructure Manager to lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of our core IT infrastructure. This role is critical in ensuring the resilience, security, and scalability of systems that support over 1,800 employees across multiple sites, including our award-winning RSBi manufacturing facility and training college.

The IT Infrastructure is provided both internally and by key suppliers. The goal is to deliver high quality services through effective communication between the internal IT teams, IT suppliers, and the internal City Building customers.

The post holder will directly manage and lead a team of IT Infrastructure Engineers involved in various IT disciplines including Data Centers, Cloud Providers, Servers, and networks. The IT infrastructure manager should have proven experience in managing enterprise IT infrastructure in a complex, multi-site environment. You should be pro-active with the skills for effective resource planning with good experience implementing IT Security and IT Disaster Recovery control frameworks while supporting a 24-hour service across business-critical services.

You should have excellent management skills with a proven track record of building an infrastructure team in an environment with a mix of different customers with different priorities. You should be able to effectively identify and provide the necessary training and development to ensure each member of IT staff is appropriately trained to undertake their defined role whilst communicating clearly relevant organisational, divisional and team aims and initiatives.

Candidates are required to have a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent experience with relevant certifications.

You will be required to have a flexible approach to this role. Your contracted hours of work will be 35 hours per week to be worked to suit the needs of the business.

This is a full-time permanent position.

As an employee of City Building, you will also receive the following benefits:

- A rewarding career with a competitive salary.

- Access to contributory pension scheme – Strathclyde Pension Fund.

- Excellent annual leave entitlement

- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption/shared parental leave.

- Access to excellent health and wellbeing initiatives.

- Access to a discounted gym membership.

Please refer to the role profile for further details on the role however if you would like to have an informal chat about the role then please contact:

· Colin Clive, Email: Colin.Clive@citybuildingglasgow.co.uk

If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience for this role then please forward a CV and completed supporting statement to the HR Team Recruitment@citybuildingglasgow.co.uk by midnight on Sunday, 7th December 2025.