Infrastructure Team Lead

We’re recruiting an experienced Infrastructure Team Lead to join the IT function of a large global organisation in Newcastle.

This is a great opportunity for someone with experience leading technical teams who enjoys the people management side of the role, while maintaining a good understanding of the underlying technology.

You’ll manage an established team working across servers, storage and networking, taking responsibility for their day-to-day management, development and performance. You’ll also work closely with wider infrastructure teams and management across a global IT environment.

The role

Your focus will be on leading and supporting the team, ensuring workloads are managed effectively and people have the support and development they need to perform at their best.

Responsibilities will include:

• Leading, coaching and developing a team of infrastructure professionals
• Holding regular 1-to-1s and supporting individual development
• Managing absence, performance, holidays and team capacity
• Coordinating workloads and priorities across the team
• Supporting engineers with technical issues and escalations
• Providing oversight across Microsoft infrastructure, Azure and networking
• Encouraging collaboration and knowledge sha...