Infrastructure Engineering Manager

Overview

In this role, you lead the engineering and operations of Rightmove’s infrastructure, shaping cloud and on‑premises platform strategy. You will drive secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure while aligning with business priorities and OKRs. You’ll partner with Product and Delivery managers to deliver changes and sustain BAU, balancing technical direction with operational excellence. The position offers impact across a fast-paced tech landscape and a chance to influence the future technology stack. You will work in a collaborative, cross‑functional environment with senior stakeholders.

Pay / Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension
• Life Insurance
• 27 days holiday + volunteering days
• Bike to Work scheme
• Travel Loans

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership to modernise and standardise the corporate infrastructure across cloud and enterprise platforms
• Drive cloud platform adoption and operation, ensuring robust, governed, and sustainable services
• Own day-to-day infrastructure performance: monitoring, patching, lifecycle management, incidents, continuity, and continual service improvement
• Shape priorities with Product and Delivery managers, align work to OKRs, and deliver infrastructure change alongside BAU
• Stakeholder engagement: translate technical issues and risks for non-technical senior stakeholders
• Improve engineering practices through standards, automation, and modern ways of working

Key requirements

• Significant experience in IT infrastructure spanning cloud, networking, and secure access technologies
• Strong Microsoft Azure expertise (infrastructure services, networking, identity, governance, operations)
• Hands-on automation and IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell)
• Experience in fast-paced infrastructure teams and delivering technical direction
• Strong security, hardening, monitoring, resilience, and compliance knowledge
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Problem-solving and ownership of complex infrastructure challenges
• Ability to adapt to rapid changes and manage multiple priorities

• Stakeholder management
• Effective communication
• Collaborative leadership
• Microsoft Azure (infrastructure services, networking, identity, governance)
• Automation and IaC (Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell)
• Infrastructure security and compliance

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