Senior Infrastructure Engineer - UK&IE

Carl Zeiss Ltd.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

ZEISS Ltd. in the UK & Ireland is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead the delivery, operation and ongoing maintenance of our enterprise infrastructure services.

You will act as technical lead for workplace technologies, manage platforms across virtualization, compute, storage, backup and recovery, and mentor engineers while driving resilience and governance. Join ZEISS to shape the future of optics technology and contribute to critical operations across diverse business units.

Qualifications

• Act as technical lead for infrastructure and workplace technologies, maintaining solutions that support commercial, service and manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for infrastructure and workplace technologies, maintaining solutions that support commercial, service and manufacturing operations.
• Manage enterprise infrastructure platforms, including virtualisation, compute, storage, backup and recovery technologies, ensuring high availability.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, capacity and availability, proactively identifying opportunities to improve system reliability, productivity and operational resilience.
• Provide senior technical leadership and escalation support for complex incidents and problems, minimising business disruption and driving root cause resolution.
• Ensure infrastructure services operate within governance, cybersecurity and compliance frameworks, reducing organisational risk and protecting critical business assets.
• Mentor and develop engineers and technical colleagues, strengthening team capability, promoting knowledge sharing and supporting succession planning.
• Oversee data centre and critical facilities operations, ensuring the reliable operation of infrastructure environments that underpin business-critical services.

Job description

Senior Infrastructure Engineer Do you want to take on a new challenge? Welcome to ZEISS. ZEISS is an internationally leading technology company operating in the optics and optoelectronics industries. ZEISS is shaping technological progress and through its solutions is extending the horizon of the world of optics and associated areas. ZEISS consists of four segments: Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology and Consumer Markets.

What you’ll be doing.

• You’ll be acting as a trusted technical advisor and collaborate closely with Corporate IT, business stakeholders and external partners at ZEISS Ltd. We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to be responsible for the delivery, operations and continual maintenance of our infrastructure services across UK & Ireland:
• Act as technical lead for infrastructure and workplace technologies, maintaining solutions that support commercial, service and manufacturing operations.
• Manage enterprise infrastructure platforms, including virtualisation, compute, storage, backup and recovery technologies, ensuring high availability.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, capacity and availability, proactively identifying opportunities to improve system reliability, productivity and operational resilience.
• Provide senior technical leadership and escalation support for complex incidents and problems, minimising business disruption and driving root cause resolution.
• Ensure infrastructure services operate within governance, cybersecurity and compliance frameworks, reducing organisational risk and protecting critical business assets.
• Mentor and develop engineers and technical colleagues, strengthening team capability, promoting knowledge sharing and supporting succession planning.
• Oversee data centre and critical facilities operations, ensuring the reliable operation of infrastructure environments that underpin business-critical services.

great employee benefits and career development opportunities

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That’s just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people. In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together. Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.