Hybrid Lead Infrastructure & Azure Operations Engineer

Yolk Recruitment; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Yolk Recruitment is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK, with Cardiff or Bangor as a hybrid site. You will lead a seven-person team, set technical direction for Azure/Microsoft 365, and drive security, resilience and continuous service improvement across enterprise infrastructure.

The role requires strong Azure/M365 expertise, ITIL knowledge and hands-on leadership, plus budget and supplier management. Hybrid work arrangement offered.

Qualifications

• Strong Microsoft Azure knowledge, including Virtual Machines, Storage, Virtual Networking and Azure Virtual Desktop.
• Strong Microsoft 365 administration and operational experience.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, including Conditional Access, MFA and role-based access.
• Experience with monitoring/security tooling such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender.
• Strong PowerShell automation skills, ideally alongside Microsoft Graph and/or Azure CLI.
• Good understanding of ITIL service management, particularly incident, problem, change and continual service improvement.
• Previous experience leading, managing or mentoring technical infrastructure teams.
• Experience supporting infrastructure change and transition into live services.
• Degree/IT qualification or equivalent relevant industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Leading the day-to-day delivery and improvement of infrastructure services.
• Managing and developing a team of 7 infrastructure professionals.
• Providing technical leadership across Azure, Microsoft 365 and associated infrastructure services.
• Overseeing monitoring, capacity, availability, patching and security.
• Leading the investigation of major or recurring incidents and driving root-cause resolution.
• Supporting infrastructure changes, projects and service transitions into live environments.
• Managing third-party suppliers and ensuring agreed service levels are achieved.
• Identifying opportunities for automation and continual service improvement.
• Managing relevant operational budgets and supplier spend.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft 365

Microsoft Entra ID

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender

PowerShell automation

ITIL service management

Leadership/mentoring

Education

Degree or IT qualification

Tools

Azure CLI

Microsoft Graph

Job description

Yolk Recruitment is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Operations Engineer in the UK, with Cardiff or Bangor as a hybrid site. You will lead a seven-person team, set technical direction for Azure/Microsoft 365, and drive security, resilience and continuous service improvement across enterprise infrastructure.

The role requires strong Azure/M365 expertise, ITIL knowledge and hands-on leadership, plus budget and supplier management. Hybrid work arrangement offered.