Head of Infrastructure Engineering & Platform Automation

AXA; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company seeks a Head of Infrastructure Engineering Guild to lead strategies for UK infrastructure engineering. You will be responsible for designing and operating core infrastructure services while driving innovation and automation. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud platforms, and virtualization technologies. Benefits include a competitive salary, annual bonuses, and flexible working arrangements. Join a supportive team that values the balance between work and home.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Annual company & performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Life Assurance

Private medical cover

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Opportunity to buy/sell annual leave

Wellbeing services & resources

AXA employee discounts

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in infrastructure engineering or technical leadership.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms and cloud-native infrastructure services.
• Strong understanding of virtualization technologies and operational management.
• Proficient in networking fundamentals including routing, DNS, and firewalls.
• Skilled in Linux and Windows Server administration and optimization.
• Expert in infrastructure automation tooling and CI/CD integration.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure security and vulnerability management.
• Experienced in monitoring solutions and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and operation of infrastructure services.
• Drive automation across infrastructure provisioning and deployment.
• Ensure infrastructure services meet performance, availability, and security standards.
• Manage the lifecycle of compute, storage, networking, and virtualization platforms.
• Define engineering best practices and guide teams on platform observability.
• Foster strong collaboration across engineering and operations.
• Lead and develop a high-performing infrastructure engineering team.
• Support transformation programs by enabling secure and scalable infrastructure.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)

Virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V)

Networking fundamentals

Linux and Windows Server administration

Infrastructure automation tooling (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform)

Infrastructure security

Monitoring and logging solutions (Prometheus, ELK, Datadog)

Job description

A leading insurance company seeks a Head of Infrastructure Engineering Guild to lead strategies for UK infrastructure engineering. You will be responsible for designing and operating core infrastructure services while driving innovation and automation. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud platforms, and virtualization technologies. Benefits include a competitive salary, annual bonuses, and flexible working arrangements. Join a supportive team that values the balance between work and home.