Senior Infra DevOps Engineer

As A Senior Engineer you will

You will combine hands-on technical expertise with a broader role in technical coordination and delivery oversight. Supporting Development teams and working across on-premises and cloud environments, you will help ensure that infrastructure solutions are secure, reliable and fit for purpose.

You will take ownership of selected technical projects while maintaining a high-level overview of the wider team’s delivery portfolio. Working closely with the team manager, you will act as a trusted technical partner: helping assess priorities, anticipate risks and dependencies, advise on solutions and keep activities moving across multiple projects.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys engineering but also sees the value in guiding others, coordinating complex work and making informed decisions when not every detail is within their direct control.

What You Will Do

Technical Expertise and Guidance

• Support Development teams in designing and delivering secure, reliable application infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Provide technical advice and challenge proposed approaches across infrastructure domains, working with specialists to identify appropriate solutions.
• Personally lead and deliver selected infrastructure projects, remaining hands-on where your expertise adds value.
• Ensure solutions align with business requirements, security principles, infrastructure standards and operational needs

Portfolio Oversight and Delivery Coordination

• Maintain a high-level overview of projects and activities across a team.
• Track progress, dependencies, priorities, risks and impediments across multiple concurrent deliveries.
• Connect the dots across technologies and teams, identify potential bottlenecks and help resolve issues before they affect delivery.
• Coordinate with project owners, technical specialists and stakeholders to maintain momentum, unblock impediments and clarify next steps.
• Provide the team manager with clear visibility of progress, emerging risks and decisions requiring attention.

Technical Partnership and Team Effectiveness

• Act as a trusted technical partner to the team manager, supporting day-to-day decisions and helping translate priorities into action.
• Exercise sound technical and delivery judgement, including making appropriate decisions when the manager is unavailable and escalating matters that require their authority.
• Facilitate collaboration across Development, Infrastructure, Security and other technology teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, reduce delivery friction and strengthen consistency across the team.
• Share knowledge and help colleagues navigate complex technical challenges.

Essential Technical skills:

• BA or MA degree
• Significant experience in IT infrastructure engineering (minimum 8 to 10 years , ideally in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong hands-on knowledge in several relevant infrastructure domains, such as Azure, Windows, Linux, VMware, networking, identity, databases or infrastructure automation.
• Broad technical understanding of how infrastructure components interact and how architectural decisions affect security, resilience, application delivery and operations.
• Experience taking ownership of technical deliveries and coordinating work across teams, projects or technology domains.
• An understanding of automation, Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Integration.
• Familiarity with infrastructure standards, security principles, ITIL and Agile/Scrum practices.

Required Soft skills:

• A good understanding of Continuous Integration principles
• Good communication skills, a positive attitude and a competitive, but team-oriented focus are key elements to be successful in this challenging environment
• Able to easily adapt to new circumstances / technologies / procedures
• Stress resistant and constructive whatever the context. Able to manage complex discussions across multiple projects in parallel
• Ready to deal with impediments in autonomy
• Able to follow existing standards and acting with attention to detail
• A true great teammate who demonstrates good interpersonal skills
• Able to summarize sophisticated technical situations in simple terms
• Solution and client oriented
• Proficiency in English.

Please note that this is a permanent position, and we do not offer freelance/contract arrangement for the role.