Head of Platform & Infrastructure

Addition; Manchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Bonus

Investment in technology and innovation

Collaborative environment

Job summary

A growing tech company in Manchester is seeking a Senior Leader for infrastructure services. This role involves shaping and scaling critical platforms, overseeing performance, and managing engineering teams. You will define strategies, foster collaboration, and lead initiatives for continuous improvement in a complex technology estate. Ideal candidates should have a strong enterprise infrastructure background, leadership experience, and a deep understanding of data protection and networking. This position offers a competitive salary alongside a discretionary bonus and other benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong background in enterprise infrastructure including hosting, cloud, and data protection.
• Experience in a Managed Services or IT Consultancy environment is essential.
• Proven leadership in managing engineering teams within platforms or infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the strategy for core infrastructure services.
• Oversee platform performance ensuring high availability and resilience.
• Lead platform engineering teams, fostering high-performance culture.

Skills

Enterprise infrastructure

Managed Services experience

Leadership in platform engineering

Data protection and disaster recovery

Networking knowledge

Hybrid infrastructure exposure

Stakeholder management

Automation awareness

Job description

This is a senior leadership role within a growing managed services environment, focused on shaping and scaling critical infrastructure platforms. You’ll play a key part in ensuring performance, resilience, and innovation across a complex technology estate.

Role Overview:

Package: £80,000- £90,000pa, Discretionary Bonus & Benefits

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Define and drive the strategy for core infrastructure services including hosting, connectivity, storage, and data protection
• Oversee platform performance, ensuring high availability, resilience, and scalability across all environments
• Own infrastructure services end-to-end, managing SLAs, service health, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Lead platform engineering teams, setting direction, priorities, and fostering a high-performance culture
• Collaborate with architecture and security teams to align platforms with technical standards and best practice
• Support complex client solutions with technical input and infrastructure expertise
• Work closely with internal stakeholders including service delivery, cyber security, and commercial teams
• Manage key vendor relationships and assess new technologies to enhance platform capability
• Drive optimisation across capacity, performance, and cost efficiency

Main Skills Needed:

• Strong background in enterprise infrastructure (hosting, cloud, connectivity and data protection)
• Experience working for a Managed Services provider OR IT Consultancy is essential.
• Proven leadership experience managing platform or infrastructure engineering teams
• Background as a hands on engineer before moving into senior or management roles.
• Deep understanding of data protection, disaster recovery, and storage architecture
• Solid knowledge of networking (WAN, LAN, SD-WAN) and resilient design principles
• Exposure to hybrid infrastructure and cloud integration
• Experience getting involved in the pre-sales process including delivery scope, cost management and capacity planning
• Strong customer and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to own services end-to-end, including SLAs and lifecycle management
• Awareness of automation, infrastructure-as-code, and modern platform engineering practices

What’s in It for You:

• A genuine leadership role with influence over platform strategy and direction
• Opportunity to modernise and evolve a large-scale infrastructure estate
• Collaborative environment with cross-functional exposure
• Scope to shape high-performing engineering teams
• Ongoing investment in technology and innovation
• A business that values reliability, performance, and continuous improvement

Big plans. Big impact. Ready to be part of it?

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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