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# Infrastructure Services Lead

- **Company:** Reed
- **Location:** Midlothian, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £55,000.0 - £61,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Backup Devices, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Hyper-V, Network Troubleshooting, Virtual Desktops, Routing, Citrix Systems, Wide Area Networks, Computer Networking Systems, Computer Network Technologies, Firewalls (Computer Science), Server Operating Systems & Platforms, Vmware
- **Published:** October 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/infrastructure-services-lead/57443157

## About the Role

* Significant experience in an Infrastructure Manager, Infrastructure Architect, Infrastructure Lead, Infrastructure Services Manager or similar role.
 * Strong experience delivering and managing enterprise infrastructure environments.
 * Proven experience with datacentre infrastructure, server platforms, storage, backup and disaster recovery.
 * Experience managing enterprise virtualised infrastructure and virtual desktop environments (VDI), using technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix or similar platforms.
 * Strong networking experience covering LAN, WAN, routing, switching and firewall technologies.
 * Experience designing and implementing resilient disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
 * Experience delivering large-scale infrastructure transformation, datacentre relocation or cloud repatriation projects.
 * Ideally with experience managing suppliers, stakeholders and technical teams.

## Description

* Lead the design, implementation and ongoing management of enterprise infrastructure services.
 * Drive the organisation's cloud repatriation strategy, overseeing the migration of selected workloads from Azure back into on-premises environments.
 * Lead the planning, design and delivery of two new datacentres, ensuring high levels of resilience, security and operational readiness.
 * Develop and enhance backup, disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities to support critical business services.
 * Oversee server, storage and virtualised infrastructure environments, ensuring high levels of availability, resilience, performance and scalability.
 * Provide technical leadership across networking technologies including routing, switching, firewalls, WAN and secure connectivity solutions.
 * Assess application and infrastructure workloads and determine the most appropriate hosting model across on-premises and cloud platforms.
 * Manage infrastructure suppliers, vendors and technology partners, ensuring value for money and successful project delivery.
 * Recruit, develop and lead a team of infrastructure engineers.
 * Define infrastructure standards, operational processes and long-term technology roadmaps.
 * Act as the senior escalation point for complex infrastructure and networking issues.