Contract - Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Deloitte; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte in London seeks an experienced Infrastructure Engineering Lead to drive the engineering delivery of a major transformation and data-centre migration. You'll oversee a team of seasoned engineers, translating target architecture into an executable plan with clear estimations.

This contractor role offers onsite London with occasional Bristol onsite Tue/Wed, 12-month duration, ASAP start. You’ll collaborate across architecture, database, network and security to ensure aligned delivery

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading infrastructure engineering teams on large-scale transformation or migration programmes.
• Strong experience in engineering estimation, resource planning, sequencing and dependency management.
• Broad enterprise infra knowledge incl. VMware/VCF, servers, storage, networking, and DR.
• Ability to steer and challenge engineers without needing SME depth for every technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate a team of infrastructure engineers across workload, priorities and delivery.
• Provide strong technical leadership and ensure decisions align to target architecture.
• Establish engineering best practices to drive quality and automation.
• Translate target architecture into engineering work packages across compute, storage, networking and security.
• Lead estimation of effort, resources and delivery complexity with SMEs.
• Define engineering dependencies and sequencing for the programme plan.
• Maintain oversight of progress, risks and blockers.
• Coordinate activities across environment build, testing, migration and handover.
• Work with architecture, application, database, network, security and operations teams.
• Proven experience leading infra teams on large-scale transformation.
• Strong delivery leadership and stakeholder communication.
• Industry-standard best practices for high availability and DR.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

Technical leadership

Engineering estimation

Resource planning

Sequencing

Dependency management

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

VMware/VCF

Server platforms

Storage systems

Networking

Backup solutions

Disaster recovery

Job description

Location: London (Tuesday and Wednesday in Bristol Onsite)

Duration: 12 months

Contract Start Date: ASAP

IR35: Inside

Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.

Role

We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineering Lead to lead the engineering delivery of a complex infrastructure transformation and data-centre migration. The role will lead a team of experienced infrastructure engineers, translating the target architecture into a practical, well-estimated and executable engineering plan.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate a team of experienced infrastructure engineers, managing workload, priorities, dependencies and delivery across the team.
• Provide strong technical leadership, steer and challenge, ensuring engineering decisions are pragmatic, consistent and aligned to the target architecture.
• Establish and embed engineering best practices and ways of working, driving quality, repeatability, automation and effective technical assurance.
• Translate the target architecture into clear engineering work packages across areas such as compute and VMware, storage and backup, database platforms, networking, security and resilience.
• Lead the estimation of engineering effort, resource requirements and delivery complexity, working with engineering SMEs to develop and challenge estimates.
• Define engineering dependencies and sequencing, providing robust inputs into the integrated programme plan and wider cost and timeline estimates.
• Maintain oversight of engineering progress, risks, blockers and capacity, proactively identifying where technical complexity or dependencies could affect delivery.
• Coordinate engineering activities across environment build, configuration, testing, migration, cutover and operational handover.
• Work closely with architecture, application, database, network, security and operations teams to ensure engineering delivery is integrated across the wider programme.
• Proven experience leading infrastructure engineering teams on large-scale transformation or migration programmes.
• Strong experience in engineering estimation, resource planning, sequencing and dependency management.
• Broad technical understanding across enterprise infrastructure, ideally including VMware/VCF, server platforms, storage, backup, networking and high-availability/disaster-recovery solutions.
• Sufficient technical depth to effectively steer and challenge experienced engineers without needing to be the detailed SME for every technology.
• Strong delivery leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills.

IR35

As a means of managing tax, commercial and reputational risks, Deloitte prohibits the use of Associates through Personal Service Companies (‘PSCs’). All Associates must contract under PAYE arrangements through a Deloitte approved ‘Employment Company’ (aka ‘umbrella company.’)

All Associates are employed by Employment Companies and assigned to work for Deloitte (as the client). When working for Deloitte, associates are required to comply with certain Deloitte policies. The employment company is responsible for the associates' employment, pay and administrative functions.