Infrastructure lead

Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineering Lead to lead the engineering delivery of a complex infrastructure transformation and data centre migration.

The successful candidate will lead a team of experienced infrastructure engineers, translating the target architecture into a practical, well-estimated and executable engineering plan.

Role and Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate a team of experienced infrastructure engineers, managing workload, priorities, dependencies and delivery across the team.
• Provide strong technical leadership, direction and challenge, ensuring engineering decisions are pragmatic, consistent and aligned with the target architecture.
• Establish and embed engineering best practices and ways of working, driving quality, repeatability, automation and effective technical assurance.
• Translate the target architecture into clearly defined engineering work packages across areas such as compute and VMware, storage and backup, database platforms, networking, security and resilience.
• Lead the estimation of engineering effort, resource requirements and delivery complexity, working with engineering subject matter experts to develop and challenge estimates.
• Define engineering dependencies and sequencing, providing robust inputs into the integrated programme plan and wider cost and timeline estimates.
• Maintain oversight of engineering progress, risks, blockers and capacity, proactively identifying where technical complexity or dependencies could affect delivery.
• Coordinate engineering activities across environment build, configuration, testing, migration, cutover and operational handover.
• Work closely with architecture, application, database, network, security and operations teams to ensure engineering delivery is integrated across the wider programme.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven experience leading infrastructure engineering teams on large-scale transformation or migration programmes.
• Strong experience in engineering estimation, resource planning, sequencing and dependency management.
• Broad technical understanding across enterprise infrastructure, ideally including VMware/VCF, server platforms, storage, backup, networking and high-availability/disaster-recovery solutions.
• Sufficient technical depth to effectively steer and challenge experienced engineers without needing to be the detailed subject matter expert for every technology.
• Strong delivery leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills.