Infra Engineering Lead – Data Centre Migration

Deloitte (UK); 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

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