Infrastructure Engineering Manager

Legal Counsel - 12 month FTC at Rightmove Greenhouse; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Infrastructure Manager role in Milton Keynes (Hybrid 2 days per week). You will lead ongoing development, standardisation, and modernisation of our corporate infrastructure across cloud and enterprise platforms, providing technical direction and engaging with senior stakeholders.

You will work with Product Managers and Delivery Managers to shape priorities, support OKRs, and drive BAU and change projects, ensuring security, resilience, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead ongoing development, standardisation, and modernisation of our corporate infrastructure estate across cloud and enterprise platforms; provide technical leadership, tackle complex challenges, and drive platform improvement.
• Drive cloud/platform management to ensure robust, well-governed, and operationally sustainable solutions.
• Own day-to-day BAU delivery including monitoring, patching, lifecycle management, incident response, and continual service improvement.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Delivery Managers to shape OKRs, prioritise work, and deliver infrastructure changes and service improvements.
• Build strong relationships across technology and the business, translating technical issues for senior stakeholders.

Job description

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

The role: Infrastructure Manager

Location: Milton Keynes - Hybrid 2 days per week

Reports to: Head of IT Service and Operations

We are seeking a hands-on and experienced Infrastructure Engineering Manager to join our growing IT team. This role is central to the evolution and operational performance of our infrastructure estate, ensuring it remains secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned to business needs. You'll play a key role in shaping and delivering infrastructure strategy across cloud, core enterprise platforms, connectivity, and end-user environments, with a strong focus on technical direction, platform improvement, and operational excellence.

We're looking for someone who is comfortable providing technical leadership, supporting delivery teams, leading operational improvements, and engaging with senior stakeholders across both technology and the wider business.

As part of a multi-skilled technology function, you will work closely with Product Managers and Delivery Managers to shape priorities, support OKRs, and ensure successful delivery of both strategic change and BAU activity.

This is a key role with significant influence on the future direction of our technology landscape.

What you'll be doing -

• Provide hands-on technical leadership: Lead the ongoing development, standardisation, and modernisation of our corporate infrastructure estate across cloud and enterprise platforms. Contribute to solution design, problem solving, automation, platform improvement, and the resolution of complex technical challenges.
• Cloud and platform management: Drive the effective adoption and operation of our cloud platforms and related infrastructure services, ensuring solutions are robust, well-governed, and operationally sustainable.
• Own operational performance and BAU delivery: Ensure the effective day-to-day operation of infrastructure services, including monitoring, patching, lifecycle management, incident response, continuity, and continual service improvement.
• Drive delivery and prioritisation: Work closely with Product Managers and Delivery Managers to shape OKRs, prioritise work, and deliver infrastructure change, projects, and service improvements alongside BAU commitments.
• Stakeholder engagement and translation: Build strong relationships across technology and the business, translating technical issues, risks, and opportunities into clear, practical language for non-technical and senior stakeholders.