Infrastructure Engineering Manager

Overview

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen. We’re home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market.

We are seeking a hands-on and experienced Infrastructure Engineering Manager to join our growing IT team. This role is central to the leadership, evolution, and operational performance of our infrastructure estate, ensuring it remains secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned to business needs. You will provide technical and people leadership across a broad infrastructure remit spanning cloud, core enterprise infrastructure, connectivity, end-user platforms, and operational reliability.

We’re looking for someone that is comfortable providing technical direction, supporting delivery teams, leading operational improvement, and engaging with senior stakeholders across both technology and the wider business. As part of a multi-skilled technology function, you will work closely with Product Managers and Delivery Managers to shape priorities, support OKRs, and ensure successful delivery of both strategic change and BAU activity.

This is a key role with significant influence on the future direction of our technology landscape.

• Provide hands on, technical Leadership:
  Lead the ongoing development, standardisation, and modernisation of our corporate infrastructure estate across cloud and enterprise platforms. Supporting solution design, problem solving, automation, platform improvement, and the resolution of complex technical issues where needed.
• Cloud and platform management:
  Drive the effective adoption and operation of our cloud platforms and related infrastructure services, ensuring cloud capabilities are implemented in a robust, well-governed, and operationally sustainable way.
• Own operational performance and BAU delivery:
  Ensure the effective day-to-day operation of infrastructure services, including monitoring, patching, lifecycle management, incident response, continuity, and continual service improvement.
• Drive delivery and prioritisation:
  Work closely with Product Managers and Delivery Managers to shape OKRs, prioritise work, and deliver infrastructure change, projects, and service improvements alongside BAU commitments.
• Lead stakeholders and translate complexity:
  Build strong relationships across technology and the business, translating technical issues, risks, and opportunities into clear, practical language for non-technical and senior stakeholders.
• Develop capability, standards, and ways of working:
  Lead and support whilst driving consistency through automation, documentation, and modern engineering practices.

• Significant experience in IT infrastructure, spanning cloud, networking, and modern secure access technologies
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, including infrastructure services, networking, identity, governance, and operational management
• Strong hands-on experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and Power Shell
• Demonstrable experience leading or mentoring infrastructure engineers within a fast-paced operational environment
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, hardening, monitoring, resilience, compliance, and operational best practice
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders of all levels
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to take ownership of complex infrastructure challenges from design through to resolution
• The ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and manage multiple priorities effectively

• A strong track record of hands-on infrastructure engineering and technical leadership in complex environments
• Deep knowledge of both cloud and enterprise infrastructure, including servers, networking, identity, storage, and modern device…