Infrastructure Engineering Manager

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen. We’re home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market. 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 i