Infrastructure Team Lead: People & Tech (Azure & Networking)

Reed Technology; North East; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Reed Technology in Newcastle is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Team Lead to join its IT function within a large global organisation. The role focuses on leading and supporting an established team across servers, storage, networking and Microsoft infrastructure, ensuring workloads are managed effectively and team members receive the development they need.

You'll work closely with wider infrastructure teams and management in a global IT environment, coaching the team, managing holidays and

Qualifications

• Experience leading or managing an infrastructure or technical team
• Excellent people management skills including 1-to-1s, absence, performance and development
• Strong technical background in IT infrastructure
• Knowledge of Windows Server, Microsoft Azure and virtualization
• Good networking knowledge (LAN/WAN, routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs)
• Experience in hybrid on-premise and cloud environments
• Experience supporting escalations and operations
• Strong communication, organisation and stakeholder management

Responsibilities

• Leading, coaching and developing a team of infrastructure professionals
• Holding regular 1-to-1s and supporting individual development
• Managing absence, performance, holidays and team capacity
• Coordinating workloads and priorities across the team
• Supporting engineers with technical issues and escalations
• Providing oversight across Microsoft infrastructure, Azure and networking
• Encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing between infrastructure disciplines
• Supporting the delivery of infrastructure projects and improvements
• Helping maintain secure, resilient and reliable infrastructure services
• Working with colleagues and technical teams across a global organisation

Skills

Team leadership

Infrastructure knowledge

Windows Server

Azure

Networking

Hybrid cloud

1-to-1 coaching

Stakeholder management

Tools

VMware

Active Directory

Job description

Reed Technology in Newcastle is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Team Lead to join its IT function within a large global organisation. The role focuses on leading and supporting an established team across servers, storage, networking and Microsoft infrastructure, ensuring workloads are managed effectively and team members receive the development they need.

You'll work closely with wider infrastructure teams and management in a global IT environment, coaching the team, managing holidays and