Corporate IT & Infrastructure Manager

Location: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Department: Corporate IT & Infrastructure

Workplace: on_site

Description

Tryzens Limited is an international digital agency and our mission is to accelerate client success and growth across all channels, leveraging our expertise, insights, and digital-first principles, to deliver compelling experiences that delight and engage their customers. 

With headquarters based in London and a proven development centre at Trivandrum, India, a near-shore office at Sofia in Bulgaria, at Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane in Australia and at Indianapolis in USA. Our areas of expertise include the delivery of digital solutions (eCommerce and non-commerce), multi-channel retail solutions, and project management amongst others. We provide competitive solutions and services to several blue-chip clients primarily within retail, financial services, and other industries. We have built our delivery-focused reputation upon technical innovation, in-depth business knowledge, and creative vision, all of which support our objective of helping clients to gain true value from digital solutions. We have a platform-neutral independent approach working with the world’s leading technology partners, including Salesforce, SAP Commerce, Adobe Commerce, Shopify, OpenCart, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, CommerceTools, Prestashop and Middleware. 

We are looking for a Corporate IT & Infrastructure Manager to lead our corporate IT function, ensure robust operational performance, and drive team empowerment. This role calls for a strong leader with hands-on knowledge in infrastructure and desktop management, vendor oversight, IT governance, and cloud/on-premise technology environments. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in building accountable, high-performing teams and delivering IT services aligned with business objectives. This is an office-based role, and the successful candidate will be required to work from our Trivandrum office. 

You’ll manage a team of skilled professionals and be accountable for end-to-end IT service ownership, governing external vendors, driving operational excellence, and aligning technology services with regulatory standards and business priorities.

Core responsibilities are: 

• Team Leadership & Development: 

• Manage, mentor, and support a multidisciplinary IT team to consistently deliver value added IT and services to our growing business. 

• Demonstrate forward thinking around where the organization is going and how technology can support these efforts. 

• Advocate and help define IT architecture vision from a strategic perspective, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems. 

• Act as the coach and mentor to team members and technical staff on their assigned project tasks 

• Conduct product work reviews with team members and help with hiring the best talent. 

• Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. 

• Develop and execute training plans to elevate team skills 

• Act as the Subject Matter Expert for all IT Engineering activities and collaborate with fellow Tryzenauts to understand new requirements while ensuring high levels of delivery within the team. 

• Manage and evolve ways of working/processes of the IT Engineering team to ensure all team deliverables are consistently met. 

Corporate IT: 

• Accountable for the provision of devices, their adherence to Tryzens security policies and ongoing estate management to our global user base 

• Accountable for Vendor management of Suppliers to ensure a consistent, high quality and secure delivery 

• Manage IT vendor relationships, contracts, procurement, and performance tracking. 

• Oversee budgeting, cost control, and service delivery from third-party vendors. 

• Collaborate with Tryzenauts and manage suppliers to ensure seamless IT support, including (but not limited to): Leavers/joiners process, device provisioning, security best practices, connectivity

• Drive adoption of modern workplace tools and practices (e.g., Co-Pilot) 

• Set in place and execute best practice processes for Access Management across Tryzens estate 

Atlassian Support: 

• Work with our Operations team to manage the continuous optimisations and updates to our Atlassian Suite 

• Work with Operations team for implementation and communication of all security patches/updates to Atlassian. 

• Lead platform scalability and migration efforts as needed. 

• IT Operations & Infrastructure 

• Oversee corporate IT infrastructure, including cloud and on-premises environments, Firewalls, network connections and support. 

• Provide high-level guidance on infrastructure-related tasks and emerging technologies. 

• Ensure best practices in desktop management, including Microsoft tools and hardware management. 

Strategic Planning: 

• Develop and execute IT strategies that align with business needs and future growth. 

• Identify opportunities for improvement and innovation in IT service delivery. 

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on IT-related matters. 

• Usage of AI in leveraging Productivity and Operational efficiency. 

• Audit and Security 

• Ensure all IT delivery, setup and processes are executed in line with best practice security frameworks such as ISO 27001/9001 working closely with Tryzens internal and external teams. 

Requirements

Essential experience: 

• 12+ years of progressive experience in IT roles, with 3+ years in a leadership capacity. 

• Proven experience managing enterprise infrastructure delivery platforms using modern techniques (e.g. containerisation, auto scalability, security policies, compute/storage etc, CI/CD) 

• Proven budget management experience of IT spend and ongoing optimisation 

• Line Management and development of a multi-disciplinary IT team 

• Strong understanding of enterprise, corporate IT environments and service delivery. 

• Understanding and operational experience of networking, administration, security, and compliance best practices. 

• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. 

Preferred experience: 

• Hands-on experience with Atlassian tools administration and optimization. 

• Experience providing Cloud IT services within a digital organisation. 

• Knowledge of one of more of the following monitoring/observability tools and processes inclusive ELK stack, CloudTrail, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus. Infrastructure monitoring using Nagios, Zabbix, New Relic.