Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Lead (Azure & Automation)

Rightmove Careers; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Pension

Life Insurance

Hybrid working

27 days holiday

Job summary

Rightmove is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineering Manager to lead our IT infrastructure strategy and delivery from Milton Keynes. You will shape cloud adoption, platform improvements, and operational excellence while engaging with senior stakeholders to translate complex technical issues into clear business language.

The role requires hands-on leadership across cloud and enterprise platforms, with a focus on automation, security, and resilient operations in a hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive IT infrastructure experience across cloud, networking, and modern secure access.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure with governance and operations.
• Hands-on automation using Terraform, Ansible and PowerShell.
• Experience leading infrastructure teams and delivering in fast-paced environments.
• Security, resilience, monitoring, and compliance understanding.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across cloud and core platforms.
• Oversee cloud adoption, governance, and operational sustainability.
• Own day-to-day BAU, monitoring, patching, and incident response.
• Collaborate with PMs and Delivery Managers to shape OKRs and deliver changes.
• Engage with senior stakeholders, translating tech risks and opportunities.
• Drive standardisation and automation to raise quality.

Skills

IT infrastructure

Azure cloud

Automation

Stakeholder management

Security & compliance

Delivery leadership

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Job description

Rightmove is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineering Manager to lead our IT infrastructure strategy and delivery from Milton Keynes. You will shape cloud adoption, platform improvements, and operational excellence while engaging with senior stakeholders to translate complex technical issues into clear business language.

The role requires hands-on leadership across cloud and enterprise platforms, with a focus on automation, security, and resilient operations in a hybrid environment.