Technical Infrastructure Manager

Technical Infrastructure Manager

Bradford (1-2 days on site per week)

£500 per day (Outside IR35)

An experienced hands-on Technical Infrastructure Manager is required for our public sector client to join their team and take ownership of the resilience, performance, and continuous improvement of the infrastructure estate. This is a hands‑on, technically demanding position ideal for a seasoned engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, modernising legacy environments, and ensuring high levels of uptime and reliability. You'll lead the management and evolution of the organisation's storage, compute, networking, and database platforms.

You'll drive reliability, strengthen security, support cloud migration initiatives, and ensure operational excellence across both on‑prem and Azure environments.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the delivery, maintenance, and enhancement of infrastructure components across storage, compute, networking, and databases.
Improve reliability and reduce operational risk across legacy and modern estate environments.
Troubleshoot complex technical issues and lead incident response to minimise downtime.
Oversee cloud security, data protection, patching, and backup best practice.
Support and deliver workload migrations, including transitions to Azure.
Maintain clear documentation, technical standards, and operational procedures.
Ensure compliance with ITIL, ISO, SOC 2, and GDPR frameworks.
Collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders to drive continual service improvement.

Skills & Experience

Core Technical Skills

Strong experience with: SQL, Net App, Linux, VMware
Solid L2/L3 networking knowledge: NGFW firewalls, VPNs, BGP, OSPF
Database administration expertise: SQL Server, Postgre

SQL, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB Infrastructure & Cloud

Working knowledge of Cisco UCS compute and storage network interconnects

Experience with Veeam Backup or similar enterprise solutions
Strong understanding of Azure services and cloud migration processes

Security & Operations

Proven incident management and troubleshooting capability
Strong focus on uptime, service continuity, and risk reduction
Knowledge of ITIL, compliance frameworks, and best‑practice controls