Lead Infrastructure Engineer
| Posting date: | 19 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £350 per day |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 October 2025 |
| Location: | KT17 3DS |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | AKR GROWTH |
| Job type: | Contract |
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Summary
We are seeking an experienced Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design, maintain, and lead enhancements to our IT infrastructure. This role combines hands‑on technical responsibilities with leadership oversight: you will direct infrastructure projects, ensure operational reliability and security, and act as a technical mentor to more junior staff. The ideal candidate will help build resilient, scalable systems that support teaching, learning, administrative and research activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the infrastructure environment: servers, storage, virtualization, network, backup & disaster recovery.
- Lead implementation and maintenance of hybrid environments (on‑premises + cloud) including monitoring, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
- Ensure infrastructure is secure, patched, up‑to‑date, and configured to align with best practices and compliance requirements.
- Plan, coordinate and deliver major upgrades, migrations, or infrastructure rollouts.
- Provide technical leadership: mentor infrastructure engineers/technicians, set standards, review designs, ensure documentation is thorough.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues promptly; perform root‑cause analysis and implement preventative measures.
- Collaborate closely with other teams (applications, security, user support) to support new services or changes in infrastructure.
- Oversee third‑party vendor and service provider relationships for anything infrastructure‑related.
- Prepare and present reports on infrastructure health, incidents, planned improvements, budget impacts.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Several years (e.g. 5‑10) of hands‑on experience in infrastructure engineering, including senior/lead roles.
- Strong experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware, Hyper‑V or equivalents), server OSes (Windows Server, Linux), and network fundamentals.
- Proficiency with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) and knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures.
- Experience in backup, disaster recovery, storage solutions, load balancing, patch management.
- Solid knowledge of security controls, monitoring tools, vulnerability management.
- Familiarity with automation, scripting, and configuration management (e.g. - PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Ansible).
- Ability to mentor, review technical work, set infrastructure standards.
- Strong communication skills; able to explain technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the infrastructure environment: servers, storage, virtualization, network, backup & disaster recovery.
- Lead implementation and maintenance of hybrid environments (on‑premises + cloud) including monitoring, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
- Ensure infrastructure is secure, patched, up‑to‑date, and configured to align with best practices and compliance requirements.
- Plan, coordinate and deliver major upgrades, migrations, or infrastructure rollouts.
- Provide technical leadership: mentor infrastructure engineers/technicians, set standards, review designs, ensure documentation is thorough.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues promptly; perform root‑cause analysis and implement preventative measures.
- Collaborate closely with other teams (applications, security, user support) to support new services or changes in infrastructure.
- Oversee third‑party vendor and service provider relationships for anything infrastructure‑related.
- Prepare and present reports on infrastructure health, incidents, planned improvements, budget impacts.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Several years (e.g. 5‑10) of hands‑on experience in infrastructure engineering, including senior/lead roles.
- Strong experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. VMware, Hyper‑V or equivalents), server OSes (Windows Server, Linux), and network fundamentals.
- Proficiency with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) and knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures.
- Experience in backup, disaster recovery, storage solutions, load balancing, patch management.
- Solid knowledge of security controls, monitoring tools, vulnerability management.
- Familiarity with automation, scripting, and configuration management (e.g. - PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Ansible).
- Ability to mentor, review technical work, set infrastructure standards.
- Strong communication skills; able to explain technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders.