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Your scope will include backup and disaster recovery, connectivity, endpoint management and the technical delivery of business continuity.\nThis is an individual contributor role with ownership of the IT function and support from external technology and security partners. It suits someone who enjoys working independently, solving practical problems and balancing daily support with longer-term infrastructure improvements.\nWhat you’ll do\nOwn IT infrastructure and connectivity: Maintain and troubleshoot networks, firewalls, VPNs and virtualized environments. Manage resilient connectivity across our sites, including multiple internet connections and WAN failover.\n\nManage backup and disaster recovery: Own backups across virtual machines, Google Workspace, Dropbox and onsite storage. 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