Senior Infrastructure Manager - Hybrid, People Leader

Partnerize; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced pension

Cycle to Work scheme

Wellness Program

Job summary

Partnerize is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Manager to lead the Infrastructure Solutions team within Technical Operations. The role focuses on people leadership, removing blockers, guiding decision-making, and ensuring engineers have an environment to succeed.

You will mentor, manage career growth, and coordinate cross-functional initiatives in a lean, high-velocity environment. The position requires strong leadership, strategic budgeting, and experience with on-prem and cloud platforms

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading a technical team with a focus on people management (performance reviews, career growth).
• Strong project management skills with ability to delegate and meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills across management and technical teams.
• Knowledge of ITIL practices and Lean Six Sigma concepts is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and motivate a team of infrastructure engineers; conduct regular 1-2-1s and performance reviews.
• Plan formal training sessions and development plans for direct reports.
• Own hiring processes to attract and retain top talent and maintain an inclusive culture.
• Drive performance improvements, define operational procedures, and ensure high availability of environments.
• Oversee budget and capacity planning for subscriptions and hardware; manage risks and contingencies.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Team mentoring

Communication skills

Project management

Budgeting

Strategic thinking

ITIL / Lean Six Sigma

Tools

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

MySQL

PostgreSQL

GCP

AWS

Job description

Partnerize is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Manager to lead the Infrastructure Solutions team within Technical Operations. The role focuses on people leadership, removing blockers, guiding decision-making, and ensuring engineers have an environment to succeed.

You will mentor, manage career growth, and coordinate cross-functional initiatives in a lean, high-velocity environment. The position requires strong leadership, strategic budgeting, and experience with on-prem and cloud platforms