Head of Platform & Infrastructure
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Head of Platform & Infrastructure
This is a senior leadership role within a growing managed services environment, focused on shaping and scaling critical infrastructure platforms. You’ll play a key part in ensuring performance, resilience, and innovation across a complex technology estate.
Role Overview:
Location: Edinburgh/Hybrid (1 day per week)
Package: £80,000- £100,000pa, Discretionary Bonus & Benefits
Industry: Managed Services/Cloud & Infrastructure
What You’ll Be Doing:
Define and drive the strategy for core infrastructure services including hosting, connectivity, storage, and data protection
Oversee platform performance, ensuring high availability, resilience, and scalability across all environments
Own infrastructure services end-to-end, managing SLAs, service health, and continuous improvement initiatives
Lead platform engineering teams, setting direction, priorities, and fostering a high-performance culture
Collaborate with architecture and security teams to align platforms with technical standards and best practice
Support complex client solutions with technical input and infrastructure expertise
Work closely with internal stakeholders including service delivery, cyber security, and commercial teams
Manage key vendor relationships and assess new technologies to enhance platform capability
Drive optimisation across capacity, performance, and cost efficiency
Main Skills Needed:
Strong background in enterprise infrastructure (hosting, cloud, connectivity and data protection)
Experience working for a Managed Services provider OR IT Consultancy is essential.
Proven leadership experience managing platform or infrastructure engineering teams
Background as a hands on engineer before moving into senior or management roles.
Deep understanding of data protection, disaster recovery, and storage architecture
Solid knowledge of networking (WAN, LAN, SD-WAN) and resilient design principles
Exposure to hybrid infrastructure and cloud integration
Experience getting involved in the pre-sales process including delivery scope, cost management and capacity planning
Strong customer and stakeholder management skills
Ability to own services end-to-end, including SLAs and lifecycle management
Awareness of automation, infrastructure-as-code, and modern platform engineering practices
What’s in It for You:
A genuine leadership role with influence over platform strategy and direction
Opportunity to modernise and evolve a large-scale infrastructure estate
Collaborative environment with cross-functional exposure
Scope to shape high-performing engineering teams
Ongoing investment in technology and innovation
A business that values reliability, performance, and continuous improvement
Big plans. Big impact. Ready to be part of it?
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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- Location:
- Edinburgh
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Education And Training
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