We are seeking a highly driven and technically proficient Infrastructure Team Leader to join our growing team. This is a key leadership role responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, scalability, and cost‑efficiency of our infrastructure environment, with a strong emphasis on cloud technologies—primarily AWS.
Benefits
* Holidays: 25–30 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays), with increased entitlement based on service.
* Competitive salary: up to £58,000 based on experience.
* Nest pension scheme.
* Discretionary company bonus.
* Annual training allowance: support for certifications and professional development.
* Birthday leave: a day off on your birthday.
* Team outings & events: a collaborative and social team culture.
Key Responsibilities
* Proven experience in infrastructure management, ideally in a leadership or senior engineering role.
* Strong hands‑on experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS, EKS, etc.).
* Reporting responsibilities to the Leadership Team.
* Strong hands‑on experience with IaC using Terraform.
* Good understanding of networking, system architecture, and cloud cost management.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to liaise effectively across teams and senior stakeholders.
* Demonstrated ability to delegate and manage workload distribution within a team.
* Collecting and publishing platform and team KPIs with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and other monitoring tools.
* Line managing the infrastructure team, ensuring regular 121 meetings and carrying annual reviews.
* Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
* Experience working in an Agile/DevOps environment with CI/CD pipelines.
* Excellent communication skills and ability to translate technical topics to non‑technical stakeholders.
* Provide upward reporting to the Head of Software Engineering and the Leadership Team.
* Proven ability to lead and motivate a technical team.
* Maintaining and extending existing platforms using:
o AWS SDKs
o Terraform
o Go
o PHP
* Security and compliance:
o IAM roles, policies, and permissions
o Identity and Access Management (IAM)
o Network security groups and ACLs
o Encryption and key management
o Compliance with AWS Well‑Architected Framework and industry standards
Required Skills & Experience
* 5+ years of experience in a technical leadership or senior developer role, ideally within SaaS or enterprise software.
* Strong hands‑on coding skills in modern frameworks and languages (e.g., PHP, Go, Symfony, Laravel).
* Proven experience leading agile software development teams.
* Solid understanding of databases, APIs, and microservices.
* Experience managing technical roadmaps and stakeholder expectations.
* Confident working with cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure) and CI/CD pipelines.
Desirable
* Experience in the attractions, ticketing, or leisure industries.
* Familiarity with reporting systems, data pipelines, and system configuration tools.
* Prior involvement in system re‑architecture or platform migration projects.
Seniority Level
Not applicable
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