Urgent Technical Lead (Network Infrastructure, VMware, Server)

trust recruit pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 days work week

Great remuneration and benefits

Central location

Job summary

trust recruit pte. ltd. in Singapore is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to review scopes, develop plans, and lead network and systems projects end-to-end. You will coordinate across multiple teams, ensure testing, documentation and smooth handovers, while maintaining security and best practices.

The role requires 7+ years of relevant experience, strong enterprise networking skills (Cisco preferred), and leadership maturity to guide engineers and manage delivery timelines.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure engineering experience with senior/lead roles.
• Strong enterprise networking experience, ideally Cisco.
• Certifications such as CCNP, VMware VCP, or Microsoft are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Review project scope, requirements, deliverables, timelines and resources before implementation.
• Develop implementation plans, schedules, milestones and escalation paths.
• Allocate work across Network and Systems Engineers based on skills and workload.
• Lead project kick-offs, progress meetings, dependency tracking and risk escalation.
• Coordinate with Sales, Solutions, Project, Procurement and Service teams for smooth delivery.
• Ensure proper testing, change control, documentation and project closure.
• Provide technical leadership for network projects (routing, switching, wireless, firewalls, VPNs).
• Support systems infrastructure projects (servers, storage, backup, VMware).
• Review designs and configurations for security and best practices.
• Lead resolution of complex technical issues and escalations.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Team mentoring

Networking fundamentals

Stakeholder communication

Education

Diploma or degree in IT/Networking

Tools

Cisco networking

VMware vSphere

Windows Server

Active Directory

Storage & backups

Job description

Highlights:

• Permanent job opportunity
• 5 days work week, normal office working hour
• Great remuneration and benefits
• Great career progression
• Location: Central

Responsibilities:

• Review project scope, technical requirements, deliverables, timelines and resources before implementation.
• Develop implementation plans, schedules, task assignments, milestones and escalation paths.
• Allocate work across Network and Systems Engineers based on skills, workload and development needs.
• Lead project kick-offs, progress meetings, dependency tracking and risk escalation.
• Coordinate with Sales, Solutions, Project, Procurement and Service teams for smooth project delivery and handover.
• Ensure proper testing, change control, customer acceptance, documentation and project closure.
• Provide technical leadership for network projects involving routing, switching, wireless, firewalls, VPNs and related technologies.
• Support systems infrastructure projects covering physical/virtual servers, storage, backup, Microsoft environments and VMware.
• Review designs, configurations and implementation plans to ensure they are secure, supportable and aligned with best practices.
• Lead resolution of complex technical issues and project escalations.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, diagrams, configurations, test results and handover records.
• Standardise engineering practices through checklists, reusable processes and lessons learned.
• Lead, coach and develop engineers through clear expectations, regular feedback, mentoring and training opportunities.
• Manage workload, team performance and wellbeing while fostering accountability and collaboration.
• Strengthen cooperation and knowledge sharing between Network and Systems teams.
• Maintain professional customer communication and ensure work is delivered securely with minimal disruption.
• Use customer feedback, incidents and project lessons to drive continuous improvement.
• Support technical presentations, site surveys, solution validation and presales activities when required.

Requirements:

• Diploma or degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering or a related discipline.
• At least 7 years of relevant infrastructure engineering experience, including several years in a senior engineer, project lead or team lead capacity.
• Strong hands-on experience in enterprise networking, preferably with Cisco or comparable technologies.
• Good working knowledge of server infrastructure and VMware virtualisation; familiarity with Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory, storage and backup is advantageous.
• Demonstrated experience planning and delivering infrastructure implementation or migration projects.
• Relevant certifications such as CCNP, VMware VCP, Microsoft or equivalent are advantageous but practical capability and leadership maturity are equally important.