Senior Infrastructure Engineer – UK & Ireland Lead

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

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.