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Infrastructure Technical Lead
Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid)
Contract: Initial 6 Month Contract
Rate: Competitive Market Rate Inside IR35
The Opportunity
We're supporting a major UK financial services organisation undergoing significant infrastructure modernisation and operational resilience initiatives. As part of a high-performing technology function, we're looking for an experienced Infrastructure Technical Lead to provide technical leadership across enterprise infrastructure, platform services, cloud technologies, and operational support teams.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll be responsible for guiding infrastructure strategy, driving technical standards, overseeing critical project delivery, and acting as a key escalation point for complex infrastructure challenges.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across infrastructure, cloud and platform services.
- Lead the design, implementation, and continual improvement of enterprise infrastructure solutions.
- Own technical governance, engineering standards, and best practices.
- Support infrastructure transformation and modernisation initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with architecture, security, engineering, and operational teams.
- Drive automation, resilience, availability and performance improvements across core platforms.
- Lead incident resolution for complex technical issues and major incidents.
- Mentor and support infrastructure engineers, acting as a technical authority within the team.
- Ensure infrastructure solutions align with security, regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Support capacity planning, lifecycle management and technical roadmap development.
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Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in a Technical Lead, Infrastructure Lead, or Senior Infrastructure Engineer position.
- Deep understanding of enterprise infrastructure environments.
- Strong experience across:
- Windows Server
- Linux
- Virtualisation technologies (VMware preferred)
- Active Directory
- DNS, DHCP and networking fundamentals
- Enterprise storage and backup technologies
- Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or hybrid environments)
- Experience delivering infrastructure change and transformation projects.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to provide technical leadership across multiple workstreams.
- Experience operating within large, complex, regulated organisations.
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Desirable Experience
- Any experience in the following would be highly advantageous:
- Firewall technologies (Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet, Cisco ASA or similar)
- CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Enterprise security tooling
- Identity and Access Management
- Infrastructure automation and scripting
- Financial services or regulated industry experience
What's on Offer?
- Initial 6-month contract with strong extension potential.
- Opportunity to work within a large-scale enterprise technology environment.
- Exposure to complex infrastructure, cloud and security programmes.
- Collaborative team with significant investment in technology transformation.
If you're an experienced Infrastructure Technical Lead looking for your next contract opportunity in Edinburgh, we'd be keen to hear from you.
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