Head of IT Infrastructure

Head of IT Infrastructure

Glasgow | £0 | Permanent

Published: 15.07.26 Ref: BBBH52720_1784146749

Global Infrastructure Leader required on a 6-month fixed term contract to lead a global infrastructure function within a leading international organisation in Glasgow. This is a senior leadership role responsible for defining the organisation's global infrastructure strategy, leading the team and driving the continued modernisation of a complex global technology estate.

The Organisation

This is a global organisation with a strong focus on using technology to support innovation, collaboration, and business growth. The organisation continues to invest in modernising its technology landscape, with an appetite for adopting innovative solutions, embracing automation, and using emerging technologies to improve how teams operate.

With a cloud-first mindset and a focus on scalable, secure, and efficient services, the technology function is continually exploring new ways to enhance performance, resilience, and user experience. Data and AI are becoming increasingly important areas of focus, supporting smarter decision-making and enabling new opportunities across the organisation.

The organisation is committed to building a forward-thinking technology environment where teams are encouraged to challenge existing ways of working, adopt new approaches, and deliver solutions that create meaningful impact.

The Role

This is a strategic leadership position responsible for shaping the future of the organisation's global infrastructure capability. You'll lead a globally distributed infrastructure organisation, ensuring services remain secure, resilient, scalable and aligned with business priorities.

Leading a team of approximately 30 people, you'll provide leadership, direction and governance across infrastructure operations while driving the next phase of the organisation's technology evolution. The role combines strategic planning with operational leadership, balancing long-term technology investment with the delivery of reliable, high-quality services.

You'll work closely with senior technology leaders to deliver key transformation initiatives, while also taking ownership of vendor relationships, commercial performance, infrastructure budgets and the technology roadmap.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced infrastructure leader who enjoys leading global teams, influencing technology strategy and building high-performing organisations capable of delivering enterprise-scale infrastructure services.

What They're Looking For

** Experience leading global infrastructure teams within a complex enterprise environment

** A proven track record of developing high-performing, geographically distributed teams

** Strong strategic leadership skills with experience defining technology roadmaps and driving infrastructure transformation

** Experience working across cloud and enterprise infrastructure environments, with an understanding of modern infrastructure practices including automation

** Strong commercial awareness, including experience managing vendors, managed service providers and technology budgets

** Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior technology and business leaders

** Experience driving operational excellence, service improvement and governance across enterprise infrastructure environments

The Offer

You'll receive a competitive salary and benefits package, hybrid working (2/3 days onsite) and the opportunity to join a highly regarded global organisation investing heavily in modern technology, cloud and AI. This is offered initially as a 6-month fixed term contract, although there may be an opportunity for something longer or more permanent.

This is an opportunity to play a key leadership role within a global technology function, shaping infrastructure strategy, leading a high-performing global team and influencing how technology services are delivered across an international organisation during an exciting period of transformation.

If this sounds of interest, please apply or reach out to Murray Simpson.

Cathcart Technology is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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