IT & Software

Lead Hosting Platform Engineer

United Utilities

Warrington · Cheshire · United Kingdom

Overview

As Lead Hosting Platform Engineer, you will guide the evolution of our enterprise hosting estate across on-premise and hybrid cloud, ensuring secure, highly available infrastructure for critical services. You’ll lead a Hosting Platform Services team, partnering with Security, Architecture and Operations to drive automation, lifecycle management and security hardening. You’ll troubleshoot complex platform issues, mentor engineers and champion continuous improvement. This role offers impact at scale within a mission-critical environment, shaping resilient, efficient hosting platforms.

Pay / Benefits
  • 26 days holiday
  • pension contribution up to 14%
  • annual bonus up to 10.5%
  • private healthcare
  • flexible working options
  • voluntary share scheme
Responsibilities
  • Lead support, optimization and continuous improvement of enterprise hosting platforms
  • Ensure highly available, secure and resilient infrastructure across on-premise and hybrid cloud environments
  • Drive platform automation, lifecycle management, patching and security hardening
  • Provide technical leadership on upgrades, implementations and new technologies
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex platform issues
  • Collaborate with Security, Architecture and Operations to maintain best practices
  • Mentor engineers and develop technical capability across the team
  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement through monitoring, reporting and automation
Key requirements
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration and lifecycle management
  • Linux/Unix platforms in large-scale enterprise environments
  • Automation and configuration management using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
  • Red Hat Satellite and OS lifecycle management
  • Scripting skills including Bash, PowerShell, Perl or similar
  • VMware and virtualization technologies
  • High-availability hosting platforms and infrastructure
  • Security hardening, SELinux, TLS, SSL and PKI
  • Azure Cloud and Hybrid Infrastructure environments – Including Windows Server
  • Enterprise storage and backup technologies including Veeam, SAN, HPE Alletra or Dell PowerStore
  • RHCSA, RHCE and/or ITIL certifications (desirable)
  • Leadership and mentoring
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Problem-solving and analytical mindset
  • RHEL administration
  • Ansible Automation Platform
  • Red Hat Satellite

Reference: WJ-747_30992766

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