IT Consultant at CoMind, London, 6 Months (Immediate Start), £500 per day (Outside IR35)

Contract length: 6 months

Day rate: up to £500 per day (outside IR35)

Start date: immediate

About the Company - At CoMind, we are developing a non-invasive neuromonitoring technology that will result in a new era of clinical brain monitoring. In joining us, you will be helping to create cutting-edge technologies that will improve how we diagnose and treat brain disorders, ultimately improving and saving the lives of patients across the world.

About the Role - The role involves overseeing various aspects of IT infrastructure and management, ensuring efficient operations and support for both internal and external systems. This role is based onsite 5 days per week in our London offices (Farringdon).

Responsibilities:

• Network infrastructure: oversight of infrastructure and manage internal/external support
• Internal Compute and Storage: Management, monitoring and resiliency of on-prem servers and storage.
• PC Purchase, Build and Maintenance: Handles lifecycle management of desktop, laptop and scientific compute hardware – from procurement and configuration to troubleshooting and repair.
• Business Systems: Management of internal hosted and owned systems
• Cloud: Management of cloud infrastructure and services on AWS and GCP. Optimization of cloud spend and monitoring of resource usage for efficiency and budgeting.
• Managed Systems: Oversight of SaaS tools and platforms, eg admin, licensing and staff onboarding/offboarding (e.g. Google Workspace, Jira, Confluence, MS Office, Bitbucket, Bitwarden)

Skills & Experience:

• Extensive experience leading IT in small, deeply technical companies
• Vendor and license management: procurement, renewals, tracking usage
• Experience in implementing Infrastructure-As-A-Service cloud hosting solutions and vendor management.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment
• Documentation: creating and maintaining internal IT documentation and SOPs
• Ability to support and communicate with technical and non-technical staff clearly and patiently
• Scripting for automation (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, Python)
• Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) for cloud resource management
• Understanding of cybersecurity practices for endpoints and SaaS environments