VIQU IT Recruitment
Global Infrastructure Leader
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Global Infrastructure Leader
London OR Glasgow – Hybrid (2 DPW)
Competitive Salary – 6 Month FTC
VIQU are partnering with a leading global organisation to appoint a Global Infrastructure Leader to take ownership of their worldwide infrastructure function. This is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping infrastructure strategy, leading global teams, and ensuring the organisation’s technology platforms remain secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with business objectives. The successful candidate will oversee key infrastructure functions including Identity & Access Management, Server & Compute, Collaboration Platforms, and Cloud Engineering, while driving modernisation through cloud adoption, automation, standardisation, and continual improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities of the Global Infrastructure Leader:
- Lead and develop global infrastructure teams, providing strategic direction and technical leadership across regional infrastructure functions
- Own the global infrastructure strategy, roadmap, governance, and continual improvement of infrastructure services across IAM, compute, collaboration, and cloud platforms
- Drive infrastructure modernisation through cloud adoption, automation, Infrastructure as Code, platform standardisation, and reduction of technical debt
- Ensure infrastructure services are secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned with business requirements, security standards, and compliance expectations
- Manage strategic technology vendors, managed service providers, budgets, and operational performance across the infrastructure estate
- Partner with senior stakeholders across security, architecture, applications, and business teams to deliver transformation initiatives and act as the escalation point for critical infrastructure issues
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Key Experience Required of the Global Infrastructure Leader:
- Proven experience leading global or enterprise-scale infrastructure teams within a senior infrastructure leadership role
- Experience within the legal sector is highly beneficial, open to candidates from other professional service environments
- Strong technical background across infrastructure including servers, compute, storage, networking, identity, cloud platforms, and collaboration technologies
- Experience defining infrastructure strategy, roadmaps, governance frameworks, and operating models within complex organisations
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies including Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS environments
- Experience driving infrastructure transformation through automation, Infrastructure as Code, modernisation, and service improvement initiatives
- Experience managing vendors, budgets, security requirements, and senior stakeholder relationships within a global environment
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