Infrastructure Team Lead

Are you an Infrastructure Team Lead? This is a great opportunity to lead the Project Infrastructure Engineering team at a fast growing MSP based in the South West of England. As they experience continued growth, They have new and exciting challenges to solve both internally and across our customer base; projects which includes greenfield, scaling and transformation of services to meet ever growing challenges of public sector IT.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for an Infrastructure Project Team Lead to support the Head of Infrastructure by spear-heading the Infrastructure Project Team. You will lead our Infrastructure Project Engineering and facilitate the coordination of network and platform/server engineers to fulfil a wide range of projects.
• Team leadership - Maintain a healthy balance of planned work that is achievable, delivered in a timely manner and aligned with department and business goals.
• Technical leadership - Directly contribute to the delivery of planned work in the team while contributing to and aligning the team with the technical strategy.
• People management - Own management, hiring, onboarding, development & retention of 4-8 Infrastructure Engineers.
• A role model for the Infrastructure team - Work with stakeholders and internal teams to understand project design, delivery, operational adoption needs and priorities.
• Guiding technical direction - This is a hands-on role, 50% of your time will be spent technically contributing. Align the Infrastructure team to the technical strategy in conjunction with office of CIO, promoting strong stable foundations to project delivery.
• Share updates - Ensure that all stakeholders are informed of relevant work, risks, and issues, tailoring the message appropriately for the intended audience.
• Attend & contribute to project updates meetings.
• Continually improve - Develop, track, and improve infrastructure delivery KPIs related to project delivery/implementation costs, and engineering productivity.
• Drive platform and infrastructure improvements through contributions to operational excellence meetings and team goal setting.
• Coach & develop your team - Hold regular 1:1s with direct reports.
• Establish development plans for team members in line with individual and company needs. Coaching and mentoring team members to facilitate their technical development.

Tech Stack

• Microsoft Server, Azure, Active Directory, SQL, Oracle - Nutanix HCI
• Cisco, Mellanox, Meraki, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Sophos - Rubrik, SourceOne
• Avaya, Alcatel - SDWAN, AOVPN, IPSEC, BGP, etc.

Benefits

• Flexible and remote working (or the option to work from an office)
• Parental leave for caring for sick children
• Military spousal's leave for partners of serving personnel
• Access to our 24/7 employee assistance programme for themselves and their partner
• Vouchers and discounts across high street brands
• Matched charity leave
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Option to purchase up to 10 additional leave days every year
• Annual events including a Summer Barbecues, Christmas Party and Virtual team building
• Surprise gifts to your very front door, from chocolates at Easter to cake on your birthday.
• Opportunities to develop your learning and skills through our dedicated training platform.