Infrastructure Lead - Perm - Investment Banking

Infrastructure Engineering Team Leader

City of London (3 days office / 2 days remote)

Up to £100,000 per annum

Permanent

A leading global investment bank is looking to appoint an Infrastructure Engineering Team Leader to join its Technology function. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who enjoys remaining close to the technology while leading engineers, driving operational improvements, and delivering infrastructure change across a complex enterprise environment.

Reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Engineering, you'll play a key role in supporting and evolving critical infrastructure services across cloud, server, virtualisation, endpoint, collaboration and communications platforms. You'll work closely with teams including Cyber Security, Applications, Networks and DevOps to deliver resilient, scalable and fit-for-purpose technology solutions.

The Role

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and mentoring a team of infrastructure engineers whilst remaining technically hands-on.
• Supporting BAU operations, complex troubleshooting and technical project delivery.
• Driving operational improvements, automation and infrastructure modernisation initiatives.
• Managing workload prioritisation, stakeholder engagement and engineering delivery.
• Overseeing platform lifecycle management, patching, upgrades and resilience activities.
• Managing vendor relationships, contracts, licensing and cost optimisation.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years' experience in infrastructure engineering within enterprise environments.
• Experience leading, mentoring or coordinating technical teams whilst remaining involved in delivery.
• Strong technical knowledge across Windows, Linux, cloud, networking, virtualisation, storage and endpoint technologies.
• Experience balancing operational support, project delivery and stakeholder management.
• Exposure to automation, scripting and modern engineering practices. Strong communication skills and a proactive, ownership-led approach.