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Group IT ManagerBarnsley, South Yorkshire – Site basedSalary up to £70,000 + car allowance Elevation Tech & Transformation is recruiting exclusively for a hands-on Group IT Manager to lead a small IT team for one of our key clients in Barnsley. This is a fantastic opportunity to take full ownership of the IT function, drive system improvements and deliver strategic IT projects. What You’ll Do: • Manage the day-to-day running of the IT department., • Lead upgrades and development of business systems, including current ERP., • Oversee IT infrastructure, hardware, software and remote site connections., • Manage IT projects and vendor contracts, ensuring efficient, secure and high-quality delivery., • Train and support staff to build confidence in IT systems., • Experience managing IT in a multi-site environment ideally withing manufacturing, • Strong technical knowledge of business systems, infrastructure and IT project delivery., • Hands-on leadership style with a focus on team development.

Contract: Bare Metal Platform Engineer & Orchestration Lead Have you got what it takes to succeed The following information should be read carefully by all candidates. Start Date: ASAP Duration: 6 months + Location: Yorkshire Rate: Negotiable (Deemed inside IR35 via Umbrella solution) Reference: 20233 Role Summary: Major IT Consultancy is seeking a Bare Metal Platform Engineer to be responsible for the technical engineering, industrialisation, and operational lifecycle of a clients global x86 estate. Unlike a traditional asset lead, this role focuses on abstracting hardware complexity through automation. You will be responsible for engineering the 'connective tissue' between vendor-specific management tools (iDRAC, iLO, XCC) and the clients core orchestration engines. The goal is to deliver 'Bare Metal as a Service' (BMaaS) by ensuring that Dell, HPE, and Lenovo hardware can be provisioned, managed, and observed as a unified, code-driven resource. Key Responsibilities: • Unified Orchestration Engineering: Design and implement automation workflows that abstract vendor-specific tools (Lenovo XClarity, Dell OpenManage, HPE OneView) into a standardized management layer., • Northbound Integration: Lead the integration of hardware management platforms with the Bank's Ansible and Terraform playbooks to enable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provisioning., • Observability & Telemetry: Engineer the export of hardware health and performance metrics into OpenTelemetry (OTEL) and Prometheus to ensure unified monitoring across the heterogeneous fleet., • ITSM & DDI Automation: Automate the end-to-end lifecycle from IP allocation (DDI/IPAM) to ServiceNow ticket generation for automated hardware break-fix and warranty tracking., • Firmware & Security Compliance: Define and programmatically enforce 'Golden Baselines' for BIOS, RAID, and NIC settings, ensuring all assets meet the Bank's security control frameworks before being promoted to production., • Multi-Vendor Hardware Deep-Dive: Expert-level knowledge of Dell PowerEdge (iDRAC), HPE ProLiant (iLO), and Lenovo ThinkSystem (XCC) hardware architectures., • Protocol Mastery: Proficiency in hardware-level communication protocols, specifically Redfish API, IPMI, and SNMP for out-of-band management., • Infrastructure as Code: Significant experience with Ansible (Roles/Collections) or Terraform for automating physical infrastructure deployments., • DDI & Network Services: Working knowledge of DHCP, DNS, and IPAM (DDI) services and how they interact with PXE/iPXE boot sequences., • Scripting & Development: Strong Python or Bash skills for building custom integration wrappers and data transformation tools.