Lead Engineer – System Administration

JOB TITLE: Lead Engineer – System Administration

1. Role Purpose (1–3 lines): Owns advanced system administration responsibilities across server & compute environments ensuring stable, secure, scalable and well-governed infrastructure operations by driving configuration management, platform hygiene, automation adoption and continuous improvement.

2. Key Responsibilities:

· Lead system administration for Linux/Windows compute environments including configuration management, OS performance tuning, patching, upgrades and lifecycle maintenance.

· Implement automation scripts / workflows for routine ops, deployment, configuration changes & environment hygiene reduction of manual work.

· Perform advanced troubleshooting for compute platform incidents, support RCA actions and ensure closure of high impact issues.

· Support capacity planning, resource optimization and compute cost optimization with platform teams.

· Ensure enterprise security baseline compliance, vulnerability remediation and system hardening controls.

· Review changes, validate implementation quality, coach junior engineers and uplift operational maturity.

· Ensure compliance with regulatory and security requirements, including change control discipline, access management standards, and audit trail maintenance.