Technical Lead

I.T. & Communications
Midlothian
September 17, 2026
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

Rate: Competitive Market Rate Inside IR35


The Opportunity


We’re supporting a major UK financial services organisation undergoing significant infrastructure modernisation and operational resilience initiatives. As part of a high-performing technology function, we’re looking for an experienced Infrastructure Technical Lead to provide technical leadership across enterprise infrastructure, platform services, cloud technologies, and operational support teams.


This is a hands on leadership role where you’ll be responsible for guiding infrastructure strategy, driving technical standards, overseeing critical project delivery, and acting as a key escalation point for complex infrastructure challenges.


Key Responsibilities



  • Provide technical leadership across infrastructure, cloud and platform services.


  • Lead the design, implementation, and continual improvement of enterprise infrastructure solutions.


  • Own technical governance, engineering standards, and best practices.


  • Support infrastructure transformation and modernisation initiatives.


  • Collaborate closely with architecture, security, engineering, and operational teams.


  • Drive automation, resilience, availability and performance improvements across core platforms.


  • Lead incident resolution for complex technical issues and major incidents.


  • Mentor and support infrastructure engineers, acting as a technical authority within the team.


  • Ensure infrastructure solutions align with security, regulatory and compliance requirements.


  • Support capacity planning, lifecycle management and technical roadmap development.


  • Strong experience in a Technical Lead, Infrastructure Lead, or Senior Infrastructure Engineer position.


  • Deep understanding of enterprise infrastructure environments.


  • Strong experience across:


  • Windows Server


  • Virtualisation technologies (VMware preferred)


  • Active Directory


  • DNS, DHCP and networking fundamentals


  • Enterprise storage and backup technologies


  • Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or hybrid environments)


  • Experience delivering infrastructure change and transformation projects.


  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.


  • Ability to provide technical leadership across multiple workstreams.


  • Experience operating within large, complex, regulated organisations.



Any experience in the following would be highly advantageous:



  • Firewall technologies (Palo Alto, Check Point, Fortinet, Cisco ASA or similar)


  • CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM)


  • Enterprise security tooling


  • Identity and Access Management


  • Infrastructure automation and scripting


  • Financial services or regulated industry experience



What’s on Offer?



  • Initial 6-month contract with strong extension potential.


  • Opportunity to work within a large-scale enterprise technology environment.


  • Exposure to complex infrastructure, cloud and security programmes.


  • Collaborative team with significant investment in technology transformation.



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