Infrastructure Lead

Infrastructure Lead (CDN, AWS & SRE Focus)

📍 Manchester (Hybrid – 2 days in office)

💰 Up to £80,000 + Benefits

🕒 Permanent, Full-Time

🚀 The Opportunity

Morson Edge are are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Lead to lead and evolve a high-performing infrastructure and site reliability function. This is a key leadership role where you’ll shape strategy, improve system resilience, and drive best practices across CDN, AWS cloud environments, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

You’ll work at the intersection of infrastructure, performance, and reliability—ensuring systems are scalable, secure, and always available.

🧠 What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers across cloud infrastructure and SRE
• Own and optimise AWS environments, ensuring scalability, cost-efficiency, and security
• Manage and enhance CDN performance and delivery strategies
• Drive adoption of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Improve system observability through monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to support high-availability services
• Oversee incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Define and implement infrastructure best practices and automation

🛠️ What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in an IT Manager / Infrastructure Manager / SRE Lead role
• Strong expertise in AWS (EC2, Lambda, CloudFront, VPC, etc.)
• Solid understanding of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and performance optimisation
• Experience implementing or working within SRE frameworks
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Strong background in monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• Excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills

🌟 Nice to Have

• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Exposure to DevOps culture and CI/CD pipelines
• Security and compliance awareness in cloud environments

🎁 What’s in It for You

• Salary up to £80,000
• Hybrid working (2 days per week in Manchester office)
• Pension scheme
• Training and development opportunities
• A chance to shape and lead a modern, cloud-first infrastructure function