Infrastructure Manager - Suit Infra Lead - Azure On-Prem 365 - Hybrid - City

Infrastructure Operations Manager
Location: London (3 days per week in office)

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Operations Manager to lead the day-to-day management of our hybrid infrastructure estate, covering cloud, on-premise, network, identity, backup, disaster recovery, and security platforms.

This is a hands-on leadership role with responsibility for ensuring a secure, resilient, and high-performing infrastructure environment while driving continuous improvement, reducing risk, and managing technical debt.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead infrastructure operations across Azure, on-prem, networking, identity, backup, DR, and security platforms.
  • Ensure platform stability, performance, monitoring, patching, and operational excellence.
  • Act as the senior escalation point for infrastructure incidents and problem management.
  • Drive disaster recovery readiness, resilience testing, and risk remediation.
  • Manage outsourced support providers and third-party vendors, ensuring SLA performance.
  • Deliver infrastructure projects, upgrades, migrations, and automation initiatives.
  • Lead and develop a small team of infrastructure engineers.
  • Maintain strong governance, security, and operational standards.

Key Skills & Experience

  • 5+ years leading IT infrastructure operations within a hybrid cloud environment.
  • Experience managing internal, offshore, or outsourced teams.
  • Strong knowledge of Azure, networking, identity management, backup, and security technologies.
  • Proven success improving operational stability, reducing risk, and delivering infrastructure change.
  • Experience with ITIL processes, disaster recovery, and service management.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Desirable Technologies
Azure, Entra ID, Active Directory, Office 365, Fortinet, Meraki/Cisco, Mimecast, Rubrik, Acronis, SQL, AVD, automation, monitoring platforms, and ITOM/CMDB tooling.

Job Details

Company
Michael James Associates
Location
City, London, United Kingdom EC1A2
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 90,000 Annual
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