Cloud Infrastructure Lead

Location – London or Winchester

This role will form part of an on-call rota.

LCP is a leading independent consultancy that uses powerful analytics fused with human expertise to shape a more positive future. We provide market-leading capabilities across pensions and financial services, energy, health, and analytics. Our technology and analytics capabilities are fundamental to what we do, helping us power the possibilities that provide solutions for tomorrow. We strive to help our clients leverage the latest technology and analytics across a range of industries to stay at the forefront of data-driven and digital solutions.

As the Cloud Infrastructure Lead at LCP, you will be working at the intersection of traditional infrastructure and the innovative potential of AI and automation. With 90% of our infrastructure in Azure and 10% on-premise, this role is primarily hands-on, encompassing 75% engineering and design, complemented by 25% focused on policy, process, and documentation.

This position is more than solving technical challenges; it's about taking ownership of personal and professional growth, embracing change, and leading with vision.

What will you be doing?

You will play a crucial role in LCP's transformation, blending technological advancements with strategic insight to enhance our infrastructure with a particular focus on;

• Deputising for the Head of Infrastructure and act as a technical authority in the design and end-to-end delivery of new technical infrastructure solutions
• Undertaking analysis of technical infrastructure issues, opportunities and requirements, translating these into technical designs that describe a solution and building these into the future design patterns
• Establishing, embed and promote reusable architectural designs and patterns based on standards and best practices for technology infrastructure
• Identifying and remediating complex infrastructure issues, including cross-functional collaboration with technical and non-technical teams as required
• Supporting, designing and implementing of processes and controls that assure maximum uptime and quick service to stakeholders for both physical and cloud-based workloads
• Establishing and cultivate relationships with stakeholders, be a trusted advisor and technical authority within the firm’s engineering community and champion best practices
• Participating in the on-call rota providing 24/7 across 365 days of the year for critical and high priority incidents

What are we looking for?

• First-hand experience and knowledge of modern infrastructure technologies (Office 365 and Azure services are essential), emerging standards and trends
• Experience of infrastructure within a DevOps environment, enabling product development and platform engineering teams to increasingly automate and self-serve secure, reliable, and scalable resources
• Experience of physical infrastructure technologies, including IP based networks, WAN technologies, virtualisation, DHCP/DNS and SAN/NAS storage and experience with Linux OS’s and Bash scripting
• PowerShell and automation skills along with IaC skills preferably on Terraform
• Palo Alto and Meraki experience
• The ability to apply strategy, using patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements, challenging and providing guidance where appropriate and the experience to design systems characterised by level of risk, impact and business or technical complexity, working across multiple services or a single large or complex service
• The ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritisation and pragmatism

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our Glassdoor page to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

• Professional study support (where applicable)
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family:

• Life assurance, income protection, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Digital GP services

For your wealth:

• Competitive pension scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• High street discounts
• Season ticket loans

For others:

• Volunteering opportunities
• For the environment:
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)
• And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - accessibilityaware@lcp.uk.com to discuss how we can support you with your application.