Job Description
Role Overview
Reporting into the Head of IT, this position oversees the health, performance and security of the core infrastructure environment while supporting service delivery and escalations across the technology function. You will lead patching cycles, resilience activities and cyber control initiatives while partnering closely with service desk and engineering teams to maintain operational stability. The role spans both cloud and on-prem environments, ensuring performance, governance and risk controls remain aligned to business needs.
You will work across a broad Microsoft-centric technology stack, including Windows Server environments, Azure infrastructure, Microsoft 365, Defender security tooling and virtualised platforms. The role also interfaces with backup and disaster recovery technologies, endpoint management tooling and monitoring platforms, ensuring infrastructure services remain secure, resilient and optimised.
Beyond operational accountability, the role plays a key part in shaping the future operating environment. You will contribute to cyber security uplift, automation initiatives and infrastructure modernisation programs. Acting as a conduit between strategy and execution, you will translate leadership vision into delivered outcomes while strengthening platform capability and risk posture. A further dimension of the role sits in stakeholder and partner alignment, working closely with managed security providers and infrastructure partners to uplift governance and operational maturity.
Responsibilities
* Maintain and optimise server, cloud and network infrastructure environments
* Lead patching, vulnerability remediation and platform updates
* Monitor system performance, alerts and incident response activities
* Oversee backup, disaster recovery and resilience frameworks
* Drive cyber security control uplift aligned to organisational standards
* Manage relationships with SOC and managed security partners
* Deliver infrastructure transformation and modernisation initiatives
* Automate operational processes through scripting and tooling
* Provide Tier 3 escalation support across systems and platforms
* Manage vendor performance across hosting and infrastructure services
* Contribute to operating environment standardisation and compliance uplift
Candidate Profile
You are a technically strong infrastructure engineer with deep experience across systems administration, cloud platforms and security tooling. Comfortable operating autonomously, you take strategic direction and translate it into delivered outcomes. You enjoy solving complex platform challenges and bring a structured, risk-aware mindset to infrastructure and cyber initiatives.
Your technical background includes hands-on exposure to Windows Server, Azure, Microsoft 365 and enterprise security tooling such as Defender. You are confident across virtualisation, networking fundamentals, backup technologies and identity environments, with the ability to troubleshoot deeply and stabilise complex platforms. Exposure to compliance frameworks and service management practices will be highly regarded.
You bring a balanced blend of technical depth and business awareness. You understand how infrastructure decisions influence operational risk, user experience and commercial outcomes. With strong initiative, you are comfortable leading projects end to end, influencing direction and ensuring delivery momentum without needing constant oversight. Your mindset is inquisitive, improvement focused and aligned to building scalable, secure and future ready environments.
Company, Culture & Benefits
This organisation operates a high-performing, collaborative technology function where infrastructure, service delivery and security work as an integrated unit. Leadership promotes autonomy while remaining supportive, creating an environment where engineers own outcomes but feel backed in their decisions. Investment in technology is strong, with active programs spanning cyber uplift, automation and future-facing platform capability.
* Board-sponsored investment across infrastructure and cyber initiatives
* Friday flex WFH and supportive leadership culture
* Exposure to transformation and platform modernisation initiatives
Apply
If this sounds like you, please send your resume by clicking the apply link below. The reference number for this role is DJ68651