Job Title : Technical Lead – Infrastructure Engineer
Department/Function : TOD-INT-INF
Reporting to Title : Head of IT Infrastructure
Main Objectives and Activities:
The Infrastructure Tech Lead is a senior technical role in the infrastructure engineering path. This role provides authoritative technical leadership through architecture, standards, and hands-on delivery across core infrastructure platforms.
The position is explicitly individual contributor in nature, with no direct people management responsibilities.
Core Mandate
- Lead infrastructure modernization through Infrastructure as Code, automation-first operations, and CI/CD adoption.
- Define the target-state architecture and engineering guardrails for secure, resilient, and highly available on-prem infrastructure.
- Raise engineering maturity by eliminating manual, high-risk operational work and institutionalizing repeatable platform patterns.
Responsibilities/ Job Description:
- Own technical direction and reference architectures for Ansible Automation Platform, OpenShift,
- Design, implement, and govern enterprise-grade IaC and automated configuration management patterns.
- Build and standardize CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure provisioning, patching, hardening, policy validation, and controlled release.
- Serve as the highest technical escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents, problem management, and root-cause remediation.
- Define and enforce platform engineering standards for security, reliability, recoverability, and operational observability.
- Lead technical design reviews and decision records; challenge non-scalable or non-automated approaches.
- Partner with Security, Risk, Audit, and Operations to ensure infrastructure controls are built-in, testable, and auditable.
- Provide technical mentorship to Engineers and Senior Engineers through code reviews, architecture guidance, and implementation standards.
- Participate in occasional on-call support for critical incidents and major-change windows.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of progressive infrastructure engineering experience in enterprise environments, including senior-level technical ownership.
- Advanced hands-on expertise with Ansible Automation Platform or similar technologies, including reusable automation design.
- Demonstrated knowledge of production IaC adoption, Git repo management and infrastructure CI/CD implementation.
- Strong understanding of high-availability architecture, disaster recovery, and operational risk controls in regulated environments.
- Strong observability, log analytics, and operational troubleshooting experience.
- Strong OpenShift platform engineering experience.
Nice to Have:
- Expertise in Red Hat Linux systems engineering and operations at scale.
- Proven enterprise storage expertise. Preference to PureStorage and NetApp SAN technologies.
- Strong backup and recovery engineering experience with Veeam or similar technologies.
- VMware platform design, administration, and lifecycle management experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Relevant certifications such as: Certified GitOps Associate (CGOA), RHCE, Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- Experience integrating IaC and automation with ITSM, CMDB, and governance workflows.
- Experience with policy-as-code, compliance automation, and platform guardrails.
- Experience in banking/finance industry
Leadership Expectations
- Acts as the technical authority for infrastructure architecture and engineering decisions.
- Leads through influence, technical depth, and execution discipline without direct people-management dependency.
- Raises engineering maturity by institutionalizing automation, repeatability, and measurable quality.
- Sets a high bar for design rigor, documentation quality, and operational excellence.
Success Profile (First 12 Months)
- Material increase in infrastructure automation coverage.
- Reduction in manual changes and repeat incidents.
- Measurable improvement in provisioning speed, change reliability, and recovery readiness.
- Standardized, production-grade CI/CD workflows adopted across infrastructure services.
Language skills:
- English fluency – Required
- French literacy – Preferred
