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.