Infrastructure Services Lead - #2163752

Reed Technology is partnering with a leading professional services organisation to recruit an Infrastructure Services Lead.

A key focus of this role will be leading the transition from a predominantly Azure-hosted environment to a modern, resilient on-premises infrastructure estate. Working alongside senior stakeholders, you will help define and deliver the organisation's cloud repatriation strategy, ensuring critical services are migrated, optimised and supported by robust datacentre, storage, virtualisation, networking, backup and disaster recovery platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation and ongoing management of enterprise infrastructure services.
• Drive the organisation's cloud repatriation strategy, overseeing the migration of selected workloads from Azure back into on-premises environments.
• Lead the planning, design and delivery of two new datacentres, ensuring high levels of resilience, security and operational readiness.
• Develop and enhance backup, disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities to support critical business services.
• Oversee server, storage and virtualised infrastructure environments, ensuring high levels of availability, resilience, performance and scalability.
• Provide technical leadership across networking technologies including routing, switching, firewalls, WAN and secure connectivity solutions.
• Assess application and infrastructure workloads and determine the most appropriate hosting model across on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Manage infrastructure suppliers, vendors and technology partners, ensuring value for money and successful project delivery.
• Recruit, develop and lead a team of infrastructure engineers.
• Define infrastructure standards, operational processes and long-term technology roadmaps.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex infrastructure and networking issues.

Requirements

• Significant experience in an Infrastructure Manager, Infrastructure Architect, Infrastructure Lead, Infrastructure Services Manager or similar role.
• Strong experience delivering and managing enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Proven experience with datacentre infrastructure, server platforms, storage, backup and disaster recovery.
• Experience managing enterprise virtualised infrastructure and virtual desktop environments (VDI), using technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix or similar platforms.
• Strong networking experience covering LAN, WAN, routing, switching and firewall technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing resilient disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Experience delivering large-scale infrastructure transformation, datacentre relocation or cloud repatriation projects.
• Ideally with experience managing suppliers, stakeholders and technical teams.

What's on Offer?

• Permanent position
• Salary up to £61.000 / year (DOE)
• Generous annual leave
• Private Medical Insurance, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance.
• Retail and Gym Discounts
• Opportunity to lead a large-scale infrastructure transformation programme and build your own infrastructure engineering team.
• Hybrid working environment – 3 days in the office, 2 days from home.