Infrastructure Manager
Location: London Hybrid (3-4 days per week)
Salary: £100,000 per annum
Sector: Insurance, Financial Services
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
About the role
Matchtech are supporting a high-growth, London-based financial services organisation operating in a highly regulated environment, as they appoint an Infrastructure Manager to take ownership of their IT infrastructure function.
This is a senior, hands-on leadership role responsible for building and continually improving a secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure estate. You will act as the authority for infrastructure strategy and delivery, working closely with group-level technology stakeholders while retaining autonomy to shape solutions that best serve the business.
Key responsibilities
- Own and evolve the infrastructure strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities and wider group technology standards
- Lead the design, deployment, and ongoing management of core infrastructure services (cloud, server, network, end-user, and security platforms)
- Ensure high levels of availability, scalability, performance, and cyber security through proactive monitoring and capacity planning
- Act as an infrastructure authority for projects, providing consultancy, design assurance, and technical governance
- Develop and maintain domain architecture standards and repeatable infrastructure frameworks
- Oversee third-party suppliers: procurement support, contract governance, performance management, and service assurance
- Strengthen operational resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities
- Drive continuous improvement across infrastructure architecture, tooling, and processes
- Produce and present infrastructure performance updates, risk assessments, and improvement roadmaps to senior stakeholders and committees
- Work closely with security, risk, and compliance teams to ensure alignment with UK regulatory expectations
Experience and background
- Proven experience (over 5 years) in an Infrastructure Manager, Infrastructure Lead, or similar senior role
- Background within insurance, financial services, or another regulated environment
- Strong technical breadth across cloud platforms, networks, servers, identity, and end-user services
- Solid understanding of infrastructure security, resilience, and regulatory obligations
- Experience managing third-party technology partners and service providers, managing the contract negotiation and performance delivery
- Confident stakeholder manager, able to communicate complex technical topics clearly to non-technical audiences
- Comfortable operating in an environment balancing group oversight with accountability
- Degree in IT, Computer Science, or related discipline
