Lead IT infrastructure engineer

BREAST CANCER NOW; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading support charity in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on Lead IT infrastructure engineer to take ownership of its IT infrastructure and lead the migration to Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will design, build, and maintain hybrid environments while strengthening infrastructure security and mentoring engineers. This role is critical for developing scalable and secure solutions that support the charity’s vital work.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering end-to-end infrastructure solutions.
• Excellent communication skills and strong problem-solving abilities.
• Confident working with security frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design, build, deployment, and maintenance of infrastructure services.
• Execute move to hybrid Azure environment, designing solutions.
• Contribute to the development of the infrastructure roadmap.

Skills

Designing, building and maintaining hybrid environments

Leading and delivering on-premises to Azure migration projects

Working across enterprise infrastructure technologies

Managing Microsoft services

Strengthening infrastructure security

Job description

Overview

We're looking for a hands‑on Lead IT infrastructure engineer to take ownership of our IT infrastructure and play a pivotal role in our migration from on‑premises to Microsoft Azure. This is a deeply hands‑on, delivery‑focused role where you'll lead technical design, build, deployment and maintenance of our infrastructure services across cloud, hybrid and on‑premises environments. You'll be responsible for modernising and optimising our infrastructure, ensuring it is secure, scalable, resilient and aligned with best practice.

You will take the lead in executing our move to a hybrid Azure environment, designing, building and deploying solutions yourself while guiding and mentoring engineers across the team. Alongside transformation work, you will own day‑to‑day infrastructure operations, troubleshooting and driving continuous improvement. You will play a key role in strengthening our cyber‑security posture, including vulnerability management, configuration hardening, incident response, compliance activities and maintaining accreditations such as Cyber Essentials Plus. Working with the Head of IT, you will contribute to the development of the infrastructure roadmap, act as a subject‑matter expert across the organisation, and ensure our systems support the charity’s vital work.

Key Skills and Experience

• Designing, building and maintaining hybrid environments, particularly Microsoft Azure (IaaS, PaaS, networking, storage, compute and monitoring).
• Leading and delivering on‑premises to Azure migration projects.
• Working across a wide range of enterprise infrastructure technologies across networking, virtualisation, storage, security, identity, backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring.
• Managing Microsoft services such as Windows Server, Hyper‑V, Intune, Autopilot, Entra ID, Defender, Exchange, SharePoint etc.
• Strengthening infrastructure security across technical controls and operational procedures.

You bring excellent communication skills, strong problem‑solving abilities and the confidence to lead technical decision‑making. You will work proactively, take ownership of outcomes, and collaborate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels. You have proven experience delivering end‑to‑end infrastructure solutions, driving transformation projects, and maintaining secure, resilient and cost‑efficient environments. You are confident working with security frameworks, implementing technical controls, operational processes and delivering compliance activities needed to keep an organisation secure. You also will provide leadership and mentorship to engineers, helping to build capability and support a culture of continual improvement.

About Us

We're Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We're the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. Whether you're experiencing breast cancer, we're here.