IT Manager

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IT Manager leading a small team at Longbow Advantage, a B2B SaaS logistics company. Responsible for critical IT functions and operational maturity within the organization.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the IT team and take ownership of the entire IT estate
  • Bring structure, documentation, and operational maturity to the IT function
  • Reduce key-person risk and implement professional process discipline
  • Manage critical business systems, especially hosted WMS environment and VMware platform
  • Collaborate with internal teams and support critical hosted customer environments

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of progressive IT experience, including at least 3 years in a management or team-lead role
  • Proven hands-on experience with Microsoft technology stack: Active Directory (on-prem and Azure AD), Office 365, Windows Server, SQL Server
  • Strong working knowledge of VMware vSphere; familiarity with Proxmox or other virtualisation alternatives is a plus
  • Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform — VMs, networking, IAM, VPN tunnels, monitoring, and cost management
  • Working knowledge of SQL Server administration, including high-availability concepts (Always On, failover clusters), maintenance plans, and backup strategies
  • Experience managing networking infrastructure including firewalls (FortiGate or equivalent), VPN, and managed-service-provider relationships
  • Demonstrated experience implementing and operating change management, incident management, and IT documentation practices
  • Experience managing IT vendor contracts, renewals, and budgets
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to translate technical risks into clear business language for executives
  • Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands-on technical work — this role does both

Benefits:

  • Supportive work environment
  • Work/life balance
  • Competitive Salary
  • 4-weeks of paid vacation
  • 6 paid sick days, 2 paid personal days per year
  • Excellent health and dental benefits, eligible as of your first day!
  • Group RRSP/401k Matching
  • Work from Home