Infrastructure Lead

Role Overview

The Infrastructure Lead is a senior technical leader who owns the overall infrastructure strategy, platform architecture, and technology roadmap. This position manages the infrastructure team both strategically and hands-on while ensuring high standards for platform stability, security, cost management, and business continuity, leveraging modern DevSecOps methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the infrastructure strategy and technology roadmap in line with company goals.
• Oversee infrastructure cost controls, capacity planning, and change management via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across all environments.
• Document and maintain infrastructure governance to comply with ISO 27001:2022 certification requirements.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools, including networking setup, secrets management, and certificate lifecycle administration.
• Ensure production environment reliability by managing Kubernetes clusters and performing patch management within agreed SLAs.
• Lead and mentor the infrastructure team as a hands-on player-manager, including providing guidance to senior engineers and covering on-call responsibilities.
• Manage external infrastructure service providers, monitoring SLA compliance and performance.
• Establish and maintain disaster recovery (DR) plans, ensuring documentation, testing, and evidence to support ISO 27001:2022 audit processes.
• Work closely with Business Continuity Management (BCM) teams on Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and produce records of DR testing.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations to support incident response and infrastructure stability.

Required Experience and Skills

• Over a decade of hands-on experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, with a minimum of three years in leadership roles.
• Proven track record managing production infrastructure, including 24x7 incident response and disaster recovery implementation.
• Hands-on experience designing and administering DR and BCP programs.
• Experience overseeing third-party infrastructure vendors and familiarity with ISO 27001:2022 standards.
• Preferably experienced in regulated sectors such as financial services, with knowledge of hybrid or on-premises infrastructure preferred.
• Technical proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, network configuration (LAN/WAN, VPC, firewalls, DNS, TLS certificate lifecycle), Kubernetes orchestration, and CI/CD pipeline infrastructure.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices including GitOps workflows, governance of infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering best practices.
• Expertise in monitoring, alerting, and managing on-call incident response in 24/7 environments.
• Skills in secrets management, patching, and large-scale configuration management.

Educational Qualifications

A bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a closely related discipline is required. Certifications in major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) are strongly preferred. Additional credentials such as ITIL or TOGAF are advantageous.