Infrastructure Engineering Manager

The role: Infrastructure Manager
Location: Milton Keynes - Hybrid 2 days per week
Reports to: Head of IT Service and Operations

We are seeking a hands-on and experienced Infrastructure Engineering Manager to join our growing IT team. This role is central to the evolution and operational performance of our infrastructure estate, ensuring it remains secure, resilient, scalable, and aligned to business needs. You'll play a key role in shaping and delivering infrastructure strategy across cloud, core enterprise platforms, connectivity, and end-user environments, with a strong focus on technical direction, platform improvement, and operational excellence.

We’re looking for someone who is comfortable providing technical leadership, supporting delivery teams, leading operational improvements, and engaging with senior stakeholders across both technology and the wider business.

As part of a multi-skilled technology function, you will work closely with Product Managers and Delivery Managers to shape priorities, support OKRs, and ensure successful delivery of both strategic change and BAU activity.

This is a key role with significant influence on the future direction of our technology landscape.

What you’ll be doing ·

• Provide hands-on technical leadership: Lead the ongoing development, standardisation, and modernisation of our corporate infrastructure estate across cloud and enterprise platforms. Contribute to solution design, problem solving, automation, platform improvement, and the resolution of complex technical challenges.
• Cloud and platform management: Drive the effective adoption and operation of our cloud platforms and related infrastructure services, ensuring solutions are robust, well-governed, and operationally sustainable.
• Own operational performance and BAU delivery: Ensure the effective day-to-day operation of infrastructure services, including monitoring, patching, lifecycle management, incident response, continuity, and continual service improvement.
• Drive delivery and prioritisation: Work closely with Product Managers and Delivery Managers to shape OKRs, prioritise work, and deliver infrastructure change, projects, and service improvements alongside BAU commitments.
• Stakeholder engagement and translation: Build strong relationships across technology and the business, translating technical issues, risks, and opportunities into clear, practical language for non-technical and senior stakeholders.
• Improve engineering practices: Contribute to the development of standards, automation, and modern ways of working to improve consistency, efficiency, and quality across the infrastructure estate.

We’re looking for someone with 

• Significant experience in IT infrastructure, spanning cloud, networking, and modern secure access technologies
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, including infrastructure services, networking, identity, governance, and operational management
• Strong hands-on experience with automation and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell
• Experience working in or supporting high-performing infrastructure teams, contributing to technical direction and delivery in fast-paced environments
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, hardening, monitoring, resilience, compliance, and operational best practice
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to take ownership of complex infrastructure challenges from design through to resolution
• The ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and manage multiple priorities effectively

What you’ll bring to the role

• A strong track record of hands-on infrastructure engineering and technical leadership in complex environments
• Deep knowledge of both cloud and enterprise infrastructure, including servers, networking, identity, storage, and modern device management 
• Strong experience of infrastructure modernisation, particularly in Microsoft Azure-led environments 
• Experience balancing strategic change, operational improvement, and BAU service ownership 
• A strong understanding of IT security practices and experience working alongside security teams to ensure infrastructure is resilient and compliant 
• The ability to lead across a broad technology remit, operating effectively in Agile ways of working while remaining delivery-focused and outcome-driven 
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders 
• A collaborative leadership style, with the ability to develop people, build trust, and drive high standards across the team 
• A hands-on approach to infrastructure engineering, with an emphasis on operational efficiency and automation

Our Approach to AI

At Rightmove, we believe software and product are ultimately people problems, and everything we build aims to improve the lives of others. We see AI as a helpful way to create more space for the human side of our work, from understanding real needs to making sure we are solving the right problems in the right way. There is an expectation that you are proactive in exploring how AI can support your own workflow and productivity, and that you approach it with curiosity and an open mind.