Role: Infrastructure Team Lead 

We’re looking for an experienced Infrastructure Team Lead to steady the ship and provide short-term leadership across our core infrastructure environment. This role focuses on bringing structure, clarity, and accountability to the team while ensuring day-to-day operations run smoothly.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and mentor a small team supporting our on-prem infrastructure environment.
• Provide technical oversight across data centre operations, virtualisation (VMware/ESXi), storage, servers, and networking.
• Bring discipline to operational processes including incident management, change management, documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Work closely with IT leadership to ensure priorities, workloads and SLAs are clearly defined and tracked.
• Re-baseline key initiatives, clear bottlenecks and provide delivery assurance where needed.
• Reduce single points of failure by supporting capability uplift and cross-skilling within the team. 
• Oversee vendor coordination, maintenance schedules, upgrades and troubleshooting support.
• Ensure environments remain stable, secure and compliant with existing standards.

What You Bring

• Strong people leadership ability, setting expectations, building trust, coaching, and driving accountability.
• Solid background in infrastructure operations across data centre, virtualisation, storage, servers and networks.
• Experience bringing structure to environments that need clearer processes, documentation and operational rhythm.
• Ability to quickly assess workloads, identify risks, and implement practical plans to stabilise delivery.
• Experience working with ITIL service management processes.
• Strong communication skills and confidence engaging with stakeholders across IT and the business.

Why This Role Exists 

The immediate focus is stabilising the team, tightening operational processes, and ensuring in-flight work is under control. This engagement is ideal for someone who enjoys stepping into complex environments, bringing order and momentum, and setting the team up for long-term success.