Infrastructure Manager

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Manager to lead and develop a team of Infrastructure and DevOps Engineers, taking ownership of the engineering infrastructure and development platforms that underpin the company's technology development.

This is a key leadership role, responsible for the availability, performance, security and scalability of a predominantly on-premises engineering environment. You will oversee infrastructure spanning Linux-based systems, compute clusters, high-performance computing (HPC), networking, virtualisation, storage and development platforms, ensuring they can support increasingly complex engineering requirements.

Alongside leading the team, you will define the infrastructure strategy and roadmap, drive DevOps adoption, automation and Infrastructure as Code, and continuously improve the tools and platforms used by engineering teams. Working closely with technical leadership and wider business stakeholders, you will play an important role in enabling AccelerComm's continued growth and supporting the development of next-generation communications technology.”

Key Responsibilities

People Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, develop and mentor a team of Infrastructure and DevOps Engineers.
• Define team objectives, priorities and performance measures aligned with organisational goals.
• Manage team workload, capacity planning and resource allocation across operational support and project activities.
• Establish a culture of ownership, continuous improvement and technical excellence.
• Support recruitment, onboarding and career development of team members.
• Build strong relationships with Engineering Managers, Technical Leads and business stakeholders.

Development Infrastructure Ownership

• Own the availability, performance, security and scalability of engineering infrastructure platforms.
• Define and maintain the infrastructure strategy and roadmap to support business growth and evolving engineering requirements.
• Oversee the design, deployment and lifecycle management of compute clusters, Physical servers and storage systems, Networking infrastructure, Firewalls and security appliances, Virtualisation platforms, Backup and disaster recovery systems, High-performance computing resources
• Ensure infrastructure capacity planning is aligned with future engineering demands.
• Manage hardware refresh programmes and infrastructure investment planning.

DevOps & Engineering Platform Management

• Own the operation and evolution of engineering productivity platforms and development services.
• Drive adoption of DevOps principles, automation and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Oversee the administration and support of development systems
• Develop self-service infrastructure and tooling to improve engineering efficiency.
• Promote standardised development workflows and operational best practices.

Operational Excellence

• Establish and maintain operational processes for monitoring, incident management, problem management and change control.
• Define service level objectives and operational performance metrics.
• Ensure infrastructure and development systems are monitored effectively and issues are proactively addressed.
• Ensure business continuity, backup and disaster recovery capabilities are regularly reviewed and tested.
• Ensure engineering platforms and infrastructure are operated in accordance with company security policies.
• Communicate infrastructure strategy, risks, dependencies and project progress to stakeholders.
• Manage relationships with infrastructure vendors, software suppliers and support partners.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and procurement activities.
• Evaluate new technologies and provide recommendations for adoption.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Essential

• Experience working within Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps teams.
• Understanding of Linux system administration (Rocky / RedHat), Networking, and Virtualisation.
• Comfortable working with predominantly on-premises systems.
• Experience working with teams in Agile environments.
• Knowledge of Dashboard and Metrics monitoring.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

• Direct experience of administration of the following tools:
• Jenkins
• JIRA
• Artifactory
• Slurm Workload Manager
• Rancher / Kubernetes
• Experience of people management or team leadership; especially multi-site teams.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g Azure or AWS).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tooling.
• Understanding of Microsoft AD/Azure tenant management.
• Experience with EDA tool license management methods.

Personal Attributes

• Must be personable, highly capable, motivated, enthusiastic, and innovative.
• Should have hands-on experience of relevant industry tools, techniques and technology.
• Good communication skills - written, presentational and verbal.