IT Infrastructure Lead (Contract) – Discovery & Documentation | UK Remote | Outside IR35 | Strong £Rate
I’m working with an international PE backed business to engage an interim Infrastructure Lead to undertake a piece of discovery work to map out and document the organisations current infrastructure estate across cloud platforms, network, identity, storage, back-ups etc.
The company have grown via a large number of acquisitions and are currently implementing a new centralised operating model. There is therefore a lot of uncertainty and fragmented information. This assignment is to map out the landscape, perform the relevant analysis and accurately document the current environment. Before then working with the incoming Infrastructure Management to support their onboarding.
You’ll be responsible for building a true, evidence-based view of the organisation’s infrastructure estate, capturing knowledge that currently sits in people’s heads and turning it into structured, trusted documentation.
This would suit a Senior Infrastructure Leader or perhaps an Infrastructure Architect / Lead who has a strong technical background and has progressed in to assessing/documenting as-is landscapes.
The goal?
To ensure the environment can be understood, operated, and owned without dependency on individuals. By the end of the contract, the business will have:
* A validated inventory of its infrastructure estate
* Clear, owned and maintainable documentation
* A transparent view of risks, gaps, and unknowns
* Zero reliance on “tribal knowledge” to operate safely
What We’re Looking For:
* Strong hands-on Infrastructure background (cloud-first environments preferred)
* Estate discovery & technical documentation
* Working in legacy or inherited environments
* Comfortable operating in ambiguity / low-maturity environments
* Able to challenge constructively and validate assumptions