Infrastructure and Platform Team Lead

We're looking for a technically strong and people-focused Infrastructure and Platform Team Lead to join our engineering organization. This is a hands-on leadership role - you'll own the day-to-day direction of a small team (1–3 engineers) while remaining deeply involved in architecture, implementation, and optimization of our infrastructure.

You'll work closely with Development, QA and Security teams to provide a secure, reliable platform for software delivery. Development teams own application development and deployment pipelines; your team owns the underlying infrastructure, hosting platforms, operational tooling and production environments that enable those deployments.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving infrastructure problems, mentoring engineers, improving operational maturity and introducing sensible automation without losing sight of reliability and stability.

• Lead and mentor a small Infrastructure & Platform Engineering team.

• Allocate work, set priorities and support engineers through regular 1:1s.

• Provide technical leadership across infrastructure, networking and platform services.

• Foster a collaborative culture focused on ownership, continual improvement and operational excellence.

• Work closely with the Head of DevOps to deliver strategic initiatives.

• Design, implement, and maintain robust infrastructure across Azure, private cloud hosting environments while supporting the ongoing migration away from legacy AWS Services.

• Maintain and improve:

• Windows Server

• Linux

• Active Directory

• DNS, DHCP and core networking

• F5 BIG-IP

• Virtualisation platforms (VMWare)

• Storage platforms

• Identity and access management

• Azure platform services

• Maintain production and internal environments to ensure high availability, resilience and security.

• Implement and keep up-to-date infrastructure security best practices across servers, networks and cloud platforms.

• Manage privileged access, system hardening and secure configuration standards.

• Support our SOC1, SOC2 and ISO27001 compliance by assisting with audit activities and data privacy requirements.

• Work closely with security stakeholders to continually improve the organization's security posture.

• 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Systems Engineering or Platform Engineering within a SaaS or enterprise environment.

• Previous experience leading or mentoring engineers, including: setting team priorities, coordinating efforts.

• Experience managing infrastructure in Azure and/or private cloud environments; AWS exposure a plus.

• Proficiency in Windows Server and Linux administration.

• Experience with networking technologies including F5/BigIP, firewalls, DNS and Active Directory.

• Solid understanding of data privacy, security principles, and compliance practices.

• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Experience operating production environments with high availability requirements.

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting ability under pressure.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.

• Familiarity with container orchestration using Kubernetes or similar platforms.

• Exposure to security practices: secrets management (e.g. Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault), vulnerability scanning, or least-privilege access patterns.

• Previous experience in an internationally operating SaaS business.

• Exposure to formal project management methodologies.