About the position
A market-leading, globally recognised financial services organisation is seeking an exceptional senior infrastructure leader to take ownership of its enterprise hybrid infrastructure operations environment
This is a rare opportunity to join a highly respected organisation known for innovation, world-class technology standards, and a culture that attracts some of the strongest technical talent in the industry. The environment is fast-paced, intellectually stimulating, and built around high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement
The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, resilience, performance, and security of enterprise infrastructure platforms spanning on-premises data centres, Azure, Azure VMware Solutions (AVS), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
The Opportunity
- Lead the operational governance, optimisation, and resilience of enterprise hybrid infrastructure platforms across on-premises and cloud environments
- Work closely with infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, risk, and operational leadership teams to ensure highly available, secure, and compliant infrastructure services supporting mission-critical workloads
Key Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise hybrid infrastructure operations across data centre, virtualization, storage, backup, and cloud platforms
- Ensure high availability, operational resilience, and performance across VMware, Azure AVS, Azure IaaS, and Oracle OCI environments
- Drive proactive monitoring, operational governance, incident management, and infrastructure lifecycle management
- Act as senior escalation point for critical infrastructure incidents and operational recovery processes
- Oversee VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi clusters, vSAN, HCX migrations, and VM lifecycle management
- Manage storage, backup, replication, and disaster recovery readiness across enterprise environments
- Ensure patching, vulnerability remediation, compliance, and operational controls are maintained across infrastructure platforms
- Partner with cybersecurity, cloud, risk, and audit teams to strengthen operational resilience and governance
- Lead infrastructure operations teams across multiple technology domains and drive continuous improvement initiatives
- Manage vendor relationships and operational delivery across major infrastructure and cloud providers
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years' experience within enterprise infrastructure operations and hybrid cloud environments
- Extensive leadership experience managing mission-critical infrastructure operations
- Strong expertise across VMware, Azure AVS, Azure IaaS, Oracle OCI, storage, backup, and virtualization platforms
- Experience supporting highly regulated or financial services environments advantageous
- Strong incident management, operational governance, and resilience capability
- Ability to operate effectively within high-pressure, enterprise-scale environments
Preferred Certifications
- VMware VCP-DCV
- Microsoft Azure Certifications (AZ-900 / AZ-104 / AZ-305)
- ITIL Foundation
- Terraform Associate
- Oracle OCI Certifications
- ISO 27001 or related security certifications advantageous
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
- Join a globally respected financial services environment
- Work with cutting-edge hybrid cloud and infrastructure technologies
- Lead enterprise-scale, mission-critical infrastructure operations
- Exposure to highly sophisticated cloud, virtualization, and data centre environments
- Strong culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence
- High-impact role with long-term career growth opportunities
This opportunity is ideally suited to a technically strong infrastructure leader who thrives in sophisticated enterprise environments, enjoys solving complex operational challenges, and wants to make a meaningful impact within a top-tier organisation
Desired Skills:
- Infrastructure Lead
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Cybersecurity
