Infrastructure Engineering Manager

Infrastructure Engineering Manager Overview

We are looking for a skilled Infrastructure Engineering Manager to join our IT team in Milton Keynes. This hybrid role requires you to be in the office at least two days a week. You will play a vital role in enhancing and maintaining our infrastructure, ensuring it is secure, resilient, and scalable to meet business demands.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership to develop, standardize, and modernize the corporate infrastructure estate across cloud and enterprise platforms.
• Contribute to solution design, problem-solving, automation, platform improvement, and resolving complex technical challenges.
• Drive the effective adoption and operation of cloud platforms and related infrastructure services, ensuring they are robust and operationally sustainable.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of infrastructure services, including monitoring, patching, lifecycle management, incident response, and continual service improvement.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Delivery Managers to shape objectives and key results (OKRs), prioritize work, and deliver infrastructure changes and service improvements alongside business-as-usual commitments.
• Build strong relationships across technology and the business, translating technical issues, risks, and opportunities into clear language for non-technical and senior stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of standards, automation, and modern practices to enhance consistency, efficiency, and quality across the infrastructure estate.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in IT infrastructure, including cloud, networking, and secure access technologies.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, covering infrastructure services, networking, identity, governance, and operational management.
• Hands-on experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell.
• Experience in high-performing infrastructure teams, contributing to technical direction and delivery in fast-paced environments.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure security, hardening, monitoring, resilience, compliance, and operational best practices.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with effective communication abilities across all levels.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the capacity to manage complex infrastructure challenges from design to resolution.
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

Benefits

• Cash plan for dental, optical, and physiotherapy treatments.
• Private medical insurance, pension, and life insurance.
• Employee assistance plan.
• 27 days of holiday plus two paid volunteering days annually, with options for holiday buy schemes.
• Contributory stakeholder pension.
• Life assurance at four times the basic salary for a nominated beneficiary.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption, and fertility.
• Travel loans, bike-to-work scheme, and rental deposit loans.
• Charitable contributions through payroll giving and donation matching.
• Access to deals and discounts on travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema, and more.
• Hybrid working model requiring a minimum of two days in the office.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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