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.