An Infrastructure Lead Engineer plays an active role in the development of an organization's infrastructure strategy architecture, service delivery standards and best practices. These professionals work in partnership with  network architects  and  network engineers . They help in developing the necessary IT infrastructure, which enables all essential business applications to run efficiently.

The lead engineer is responsible for the smooth and reliable operation of software and systems. They have come up with innovative strategies for new and existing applications, software and operating systems. The professional must provide technical assistance to IT teams and will have to focus more on networking security and desktop support. It's the Infrastructure Lead Engineer who has to take care of the wireless networks such as servers, storage, routers and other related hardware.

The professionals must create and maintain policies for network administration, use and data recovery. The engineer will assist with any changes related to networking infrastructure. They have to work in cooperation with the network operations to take care of firewall, proxy, load balancing and Wide IP requests. The professionals should have an in-depth understanding of network security technologies and should be able to work extensively with open source configuration management tools. They will have to define, submit and track infrastructure procurement requests.