• Build and maintain services and tooling that automate the network lifecycle: day-0 provisioning, day-N changes, drift detection, and operational verification • Make network changes safe and transparent: CI/CD workflows, diff/review tooling, staged rollouts/rollbacks, audit trails, and guardrails • Develop observability systems that scale across many sites: telemetry pipelines, signal quality, and tooling that shortens incident investigations • Close “last mile” gaps between the network and the platform: integrate source-of-truth data, expose APIs, and build reliable automation around it • Collaborate closely with network engineers and SREs to turn real operational pain into product-quality tooling

• Working for an Insurance sector client in the UK on a long term project.

• Lead and manage an engineering team, ensuring alignment with product and business goals • Manage an infrastructure engineering team in the development or enhancement of IT infrastructure products or solutions for stability and resilience. • Own the overall health, scalability, and quality of products within the team’s domain. • Facilitate and continuously improve team processes, including development, planning, on-call rotations, defect triage, incident resolution and metrics review to optimize productivity and efficiency. • Coach and mentor engineers help them excel and achieve personal/organizational goals, grow technical skills, and progress in their careers. • Collaborate with engineering and operations partners on IT infrastructure projects, ensuring technical alignment with business objectives. • Lead the activities of the team toward executing well-defined projects in support of quarterly and annual goals. • Drive execution on projects/goals that may extend beyond the immediate team’s scope, ensuring cross-functional collaboration. • Ensure the quality, scalability, and health of the IT infrastructure products, working to improve technical excellence and operational reliability. • Empower and unblock the team by establishing efficient execution and operational processes, ensuring high velocity and impactful delivery. • Monitor and analyze team performance metrics to drive continuous improvements in development efficiency and quality. • Optimize resource allocation within the team, ensuring the right talent is focused on priority initiatives. • Stay informed on industry trends and emerging technologies, applying relevant best practices to enhance engineering effectiveness. • Ensure adherence to security best practices and compliance standards. • Focus on VMware, Cisco MDS/UCS, and other off the shelf compute hardware deployment and operations using automated tooling. • Own the strategy and effectiveness of monitoring and observability tooling (NDFC-SAN, Datadog, LogicMonitor), driving proactive detection, actionable insights, and continuous improvement in infrastructure reliability. • Strong knowledge in working with storage platforms such as PureStorage FlashArray and FlashBlade. • Jira for project planning, and familiarity with datacenter architecture and capacity planning.

• Implementing and supporting virtualization, compute, and storage systems, including SAN environments. • Deployment, configuration, and maintenance of infrastructure components. • Performing software upgrades and ongoing system support. • Contributing to the design and deployment of highly available virtualization, compute, and storage solutions. • Ensuring incidents are resolved in a timely manner. • Collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Contribute to medium to large infrastructure projects. • Implement, administer, and maintain geographically distributed on-premises datacenter infrastructure. • Prepare and execute planned infrastructure changes. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement infrastructure solutions. • Monitor infrastructure health using alerting and monitoring tools. • Support data integrity efforts within SaaS platforms. • Develop and maintain automation scripts to improve operational efficiency.