Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Infrastructure Lead

A leading organization within a highly regulated environment is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Infrastructure Lead to take ownership of a large-scale, mission-critical enterprise infrastructure.

This role is suited to a hands-on technical leader with deep experience across on-prem, virtualized, and hybrid environments, who can confidently manage vendors, drive infrastructure governance, and lead complex transitions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage enterprise infrastructure supporting multiple business-critical systems
• Take ownership of infrastructure operations, performance, availability, and resilience
• Manage transitions from outsourced vendors to in-house or hybrid operating models
• Oversee data centre, server, storage, network, and virtualization platforms
• Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory standards
• Lead incident response for major outages and 24/7 production environments
• Define infrastructure standards, policies, and governance frameworks
• Manage multi-vendor environments and challenge delivery quality
• Drive DR, BC, RPO/RTO planning and testing
• Mentor and guide senior and junior engineers

Required Experience:

• 7+ years in enterprise infrastructure roles
• 4+ years in a senior or lead capacity
• Experience within government, finance, healthcare, or other regulated sectors
• Proven experience managing large-scale, high-availability environments
• Strong background in vendor management and infrastructure transitions
• Experience supporting high-volume transactional systems

Technical Expertise:

• Linux & Windows Server (expert level)
• VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter, HA, DRS; NSX preferred)
• Storage (SAN/NAS – EMC, NetApp, Dell, HPE)
• Networking (LAN/WAN, firewalls, load balancers)
• Backup & DR (Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, etc.)
• Monitoring & Logging (SolarWinds, Zabbix, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK)
• Security hardening, patching & vulnerability management
• Cloud, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code experience are highly advantageous.

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