Infrastructure Lead

The Infrastructure Lead is a senior player-manager responsible for owning the infrastructure strategy, architecture, and roadmap. This role leads the infrastructure team with strategic oversight and handson technical capability, ensuring platform reliability, security, cost-efficiency, and business continuity, underpinned by modern DevSecOps practices.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Strategy, Governance, Provisioning & Operations

• Own and drive the infrastructure strategy, platform decisions, and technology roadmap in alignment with organisational objectives.
• Govern infrastructure costs, capacity planning, and IaC change controls across all environments.
• Ensure infrastructure controls are documented and evidenced to support the ISO 27001:2022 certification programme.
• Build and configure cloud infrastructure using IaC tooling; manage networking, secrets, and certificate lifecycle across all environments.
• Maintain production infrastructure stability, manage Kubernetes clusters, and execute patch management within defined SLAs.

Team Leadership

• Lead the infrastructure team as a player-manager, remaining hands-on and technically capable.
• Provide mentorship to the Senior Cloud Engineer and infrastructure staff; cover on-call duties as required.
• Manage third-party infrastructure service providers, including SLA governance and performance management.

Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Support

• Establish and maintain the DR plan across all infrastructure systems, ensuring it is documented, tested, and evidenced.
• Collaborate with the BCM on BCP and produce DR test records as ISO 27001:2022 audit evidence.
• On-call availability is required to support 24x7 incident response coverage.

Requirements

Experience

• 10+ years of hands-on infrastructure or platform engineering experience, with 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience managing production infrastructure including 24x7 on-call incident response and DR execution.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering DR and BCP programmes.
• Experience managing third-party infrastructure or managed service providers; ISO 27001:2022 frameworks exposure.
• Background in regulated industries (financial services preferred); on-premise or hybrid infrastructure experience advantageous.

Technical Skills

• Cloud infrastructure: architecture, provisioning, governance, and security hardening (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, or equivalent
• Networking: LAN/WAN, VPCs, security groups, firewall rules, DNS, and TLS certificate management
• Container orchestration: Kubernetes cluster management and CI/CD pipeline infrastructure
• DevSecOps practices: GitOps workflows, infrastructure-as-code governance, and platform engineering standards
• Observability: monitoring, alerting, and on-call incident management for 24x7 environments
• Secrets management, patch management, and configuration management at scale

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Cloud platform certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP) strongly preferred; ITIL or TOGAF advantageous.