Infrastructure Team Lead

We're recruiting an experienced Infrastructure Team Lead to join the IT function of a large global organisation in Newcastle.

This is a great opportunity for someone with experience leading technical teams who enjoys the people management side of the role, while maintaining a good understanding of the underlying technology.

You'll manage an established team working across servers, storage and networking, taking responsibility for their day-to-day management, development and performance. You'll also work closely with wider infrastructure teams and management across a global IT environment.

The role

Your focus will be on leading and supporting the team, ensuring workloads are managed effectively and people have the support and development they need to perform at their best.

Responsibilities will include:

Leading, coaching and developing a team of infrastructure professionals
Holding regular 1-to-1s and supporting individual development
Managing absence, performance, holidays and team capacity
Coordinating workloads and priorities across the team
Supporting engineers with technical issues and escalations
Providing oversight across Microsoft infrastructure, Azure and networking
Encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing between infrastructure disciplines
Supporting the delivery of infrastructure projects and improvements
Helping maintain secure, resilient and reliable infrastructure services
Working with colleagues and technical teams across a global organisation

What we're looking for

The role requires a good combination of people management experience and technical infrastructure knowledge.

Ideally, you'll bring:

Experience leading or managing an infrastructure or technical team
Good people management experience, including 1-to-1s, absence management, performance and development
A strong technical background within IT infrastructure
Knowledge of Windows Server, Microsoft Azure and virtualisation
Good networking knowledge across areas such as LAN/WAN, routing, switching, firewalls and VPNs
Experience working within hybrid on-premise and cloud environments
Experience supporting technical escalations and operational issues
Strong communication, organisation and stakeholder management skills

Experience with areas such as storage and backup, ITIL, Service Now, automation or global IT environments would also be beneficial.

The opportunity

You'll be joining an established and growing infrastructure function within a large global organisation, taking responsibility for the day-to-day leadership of a team covering both compute and networking.

It's a particularly good opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure Team Lead, Technical Team Lead or infrastructure professional who has progressed into people management, while still enjoying being close to the technology