Infrastructure Design Lead

Infrastructure Engineering Design Lead
Location: London

Duration: 6 months

Rate: 700, Inside IR35

Location: London

Clearance: DV required

If you enjoy turning complex infrastructure challenges into clear, secure and supportable designs, this role is built for you. As an Infrastructure Engineering Design Lead, you'll lead a team of engineers delivering enterprise infrastructure services that keep critical capabilities running reliably-now and into the future.

What you'll be doing:

Lead the design of infrastructure solutions end-to-end, producing and reviewing both high-level and low-level designs
Define infrastructure architectures that deliver availability, scalability, resilience, security and long-term supportability
Drive infrastructure lifecycle planning, including technology refresh, capacity growth and platform evolution
Make automation, observability and operational efficiency core to how solutions are designed
Carry out technical assurance and design governance, reviewing designs from engineers, suppliers and third parties
Ensure operational support needs are built into solutions from the outset
Partner with solution architects and security architects to create integrated end-to-end outcomes
Lead technical investigations, proof of concepts and technology evaluations
Establish infrastructure design principles, standards, blueprints and reference architectures

What you'll bring:

Significant experience designing enterprise infrastructure solutions, including producing and reviewing high-level and low-level designs
A track record translating business requirements into infrastructure designs for mission-critical, business-critical services
Technical leadership that brings clarity and guidance across infrastructure, platform and hosting domains
Understanding of NIST and CIS security controls
Demonstrable experience across several areas such as:
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- Enterprise server platforms and Windows Server
- Linux (e.g., RHEL, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu or similar)
- Enterprise storage (e.g., NetApp or Dell PowerStore)
- Backup and recovery (e.g., Veeam, Cohesity or NetBackup)
- Infrastructure monitoring and observability tools
- Automation using Ansible, PowerShell or Bash
- Core networking concepts (routing, switching and firewalls)
Strong system design fundamentals including HA, DR, fault tolerance, scaling, capacity planning, security by design, resilience engineering and service recoverability

Additional information:

Lead with behaviours: customer-first thinking, challenging the status quo, delivering with integrity, communicating clearly and collaborating across teams
Compliance with all BT policies is mandatory

Ready to make a real impact on infrastructure that matters? Apply now to join a team where your technical leadership is valued-and your ideas can shape what comes next.

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