Lead Engineer – System Administration

About the role

Owns advanced system administration responsibilities across server and compute environments, ensuring stable, secure, scalable, and well‑governed infrastructure operations by driving configuration management, platform hygiene, automation adoption, and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities

• Lead system administration for Linux/Windows compute environments, including configuration management, OS performance tuning, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle maintenance.
• Implement automation scripts and workflows for routine operations, deployments, configuration changes, and environment hygiene to reduce manual work.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting for compute platform incidents, support root‑cause analysis, and ensure closure of high‑impact issues.
• Support capacity planning, resource optimization, and compute cost optimization in collaboration 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.
• Maintain compliance with regulatory and security requirements, including change‑control discipline, access‑management standards, and audit‑trail maintenance.