Infrastructure Lead

Salary: £98,800 - 143,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience managing enterprise data centre operations.
• Extensive experience administering VMware vSphere environments.
• Strong experience with VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter, VMware vMotion, VMware HA and DRS, and VMware Lifecycle Manager.
• Experience building and maintaining technical lab environments for infrastructure testing and validation.
• Experience managing physical server infrastructure from vendors such as Dell, HPE, Cisco, or Lenovo.
• Experience with SAN/NAS storage technologies.
• Knowledge of enterprise networking, including switching, routing, VLANs, and firewalls.
• Experience with backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Strong understanding of Windows Server and Linux environments.
• Experience with Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, SAN storage, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, network fundamentals, PowerShell scripting, monitoring platforms, and infrastructure automation tools.
• Desirable: Azure or AWS infrastructure.
• Desirable: Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Desirable: ITIL certification.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day operations of our mission-critical data centre environment in a pre-production setting.
• Ensure high availability, operational excellence, infrastructure reliability, and effective management of technical teams.
• Manage the daily operations of our enterprise data centre facilities.
• Ensure maximum uptime and availability of compute, storage, network, and virtual infrastructure.
• Lead infrastructure projects including upgrades, migrations, capacity planning, and technology refreshes.
• Manage our VMware virtualisation platforms, including installation, configuration, optimisation, and troubleshooting.
• Maintain and manage lab environments for testing infrastructure changes, firmware updates, disaster recovery procedures, and proof-of-concept deployments.
• Develop and maintain operational procedures, standards, and documentation.
• Monitor infrastructure performance and implement proactive improvements.
• Manage relationships with hardware, software, and service vendors.
• Manage budgets, contracts, asset lifecycle, and capacity planning.
• Mentor and develop technical engineers and operational staff.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Active Directory
• Ansible
• Azure
• Cisco
• Firmware
• Hardware
• Support
• ITIL
• Linux
• Network
• PowerShell
• Terraform
• VMware
• Windows
• Cloud
• DevOps

More:

We are recruiting for an Infrastructure Lead/Manager to support a mission-critical data centre environment in West Yorkshire. This is a hybrid contract role with three days a week on site, starting ASAP after background check completion, for an initial six-month duration with the possibility of extension. The rate is £500-£550 per day, deemed inside IR35 via umbrella. We are offering the opportunity to work in a hands-on pre-production environment where operational readiness, infrastructure resilience, and VMware expertise are essential.

last updated 33 week of 2026