Senior Infrastructure Engineering Lead

SALARY: £90,440-117,000 pa 

LOCATIONS: Edinburgh, Manchester, or Leeds 

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week 

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid – around 40% (or two days) in one of our office locations 

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

Are you a seasoned infrastructure engineer ready to take the next step into a strategic leadership role? We’re looking for multiple Infrastructure Engineering Leads to join our Chief Security Office and drive the evolution of secure, scalable, and automated cloud infrastructure across our hybrid and multi-cloud environments. 

Join us to shape the future of cloud security engineering while fostering a culture of innovation, automation, and continuous improvement. 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers and strategic oversight for secure infrastructure across our security engineering labs and products.  

• Shape and lead the infrastructure and security strategy and the technical roadmaps across the teams. 

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and compliant cloud and third-party solutions, collaborating across engineering, security, and business teams. 

• Champion DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native tooling to enhance posture and reduce friction. 

• Ensure operational coverage, whilst driving automation and innovation using modern engineering practices such as Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code and engineering delivery and maintaining platform security posture. 

• Incorporate best practices in network security, web application protection, and zero trust architecture to strengthen defence-in-depth strategies. 

• Design and deploy Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and security controls to protect modern applications from threats and vulnerabilities. 

• Guide the integration of AI and analytics into security operations working with data scientists and AI engineers. 

• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a high-performing, inclusive, and growth-oriented team culture. 

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

We’re looking for a leader with a strong technical foundation and proven experience in: 

Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure 

• Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) 

• DevOps & IaC: Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git 

• Container security: Kubernetes (K8s)  

Security & Compliance 

• Cloud and application security: Cloud posture management tools (e.g. Azure Dender, GCP SCCE), WAFs (e.g. Azure WAF, Cloud Armor AWS WAF), and protection against OWASP Top 10 and emerging threats.

• Network & infrastructure security: Network security principles (e.g. segmentation, monitoring, intrusion detection/prevention). Any experience in Zero Trust architecture in cloud environments would be very desirable. 

• Security Defence Centre Tools and practices. 

Scripting & Automation 

• Python (preferred), PowerShell, Configuration as Code principles and API integration (e.g., Microsoft Graph API) 

Leadership & Strategy 

• Strategic planning, innovation leadership and delivery in infrastructure and cloud security 

• Budget and resource management 

• Coaching, mentoring, and performance management 

ABOUT WORKING WITH US

We’re proud to be building a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are committed to creating an environment where you can thrive—whoever you are! 

We’ve led the way with initiatives like setting diversity goals for senior roles, launching a menopause health package, and supporting colleagues through our Working with Cancer programme. 

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. 

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. 

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need. 

WHAT YOU'LL GET

in addition to a competitive salary, we also offer a great range of benefits, including: 

• Up to 15% employer pension contribution 

• Annual bonus (based on Group performance) 

• Share schemes, including free shares 

• Flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle 

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays 

• Wellbeing support and generous parental leave 

If this sounds like the kind of team you’d like to be part of, we’d love to hear from you!