Lead IT Infrastructure

Bestway Automotive; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Bestway Automotive is seeking a Lead IT Infrastructure to plan, design, and manage the organization's infrastructure including networks, servers, data centers, and cloud environments. You will lead a team of engineers to ensure reliability, scalability, security, and performance aligned with business goals.

The role emphasizes driving automation, modernization, and high availability with strategic collaboration with senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science.
• 8–10 years of relevant experience in IT infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the IT infrastructure strategy and architecture aligned with business objectives.
• Define and maintain infrastructure standards and best practices for networks, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud, and data centers.
• Oversee design, deployment, maintenance and performance of LAN/WAN networks, servers, storage, and data centers.
• Ensure high availability, capacity planning, performance monitoring, lifecycle management, patching, and hardware refresh cycles.
• Manage cloud and virtualization environments, including Microsoft 365 administration, cloud governance, cost optimization.
• Develop and maintain robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans, including backup and DR testing.
• Ensure infrastructure security and compliance with governance frameworks in collaboration with IT Security.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the infrastructure team; manage vendors, SLAs, resources and projects.
• Manage IT infrastructure budget and reporting on performance, risks, incidents, costs, and progress.
• Drive automation, containerization, and AI-driven operations to improve resilience and efficiency.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Technical leadership

Reliability & uptime

Communication & collaboration

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

Microsoft 365 administration

Job description

The Lead IT Infrastructure is responsible for the planning, design, implementation, and management of the organization's IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, data centers, and cloud environments. This role ensures the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of infrastructure systems while leading a team of infrastructure engineers and administrators. The Lead IT Infrastructure works closely with senior leadership to align infrastructure investments with business objectives, drive automation and modernization initiatives, and maintain high availability and disaster recovery readiness.

Job Description

• Develop and execute the IT infrastructure strategy and architecture in alignment with organizational business objectives.
• Define and maintain infrastructure standards and best practices covering networks, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud, and data centers.
• Oversee the design, deployment, maintenance, and performance of LAN/WAN networks, servers, storage systems, and data center operations.
• Ensure high availability, capacity planning, performance monitoring, infrastructure lifecycle management, patching, and hardware refresh cycles.
• Manage cloud and virtualization environments, including Microsoft 365 administration, cloud governance, performance optimization, and cost efficiency.
• Develop and maintain robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans, including backup, redundancy, failover, and regular DR testing.
• Ensure infrastructure security and compliance by collaborating with IT Security and implementing required security policies, controls, and governance frameworks.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the infrastructure team while managing vendors, service providers, contractors, SLAs, resources, and infrastructure projects.
• Manage the IT infrastructure budget and provide senior management with regular reporting on performance, risks, incidents, costs, and project progress.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation through automation, containerization, emerging technologies, and AI-driven infrastructure operations to improve resilience, scalability, and efficiency.

Experience & Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science.
• 8 to 10 years of relevant experience.

Specific Requirements

• Strategic and forward-thinking with the ability to anticipate future infrastructure needs and plan proactively.
• Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to guide, mentor, and develop high-performing infrastructure teams.
• Reliability-focused approach with strong emphasis on system uptime, resilience, availability, and performance.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Adaptable and solution-oriented with the ability to respond effectively to evolving technology requirements and infrastructure challenges.