Lead Hosting Platform Engineer

Overview

In this role you will lead the evolution of United Utilities’ enterprise hosting platforms, ensuring secure, resilient, and highly available infrastructure across on‑premise and hybrid cloud environments. You’ll drive platform automation, lifecycle management, and security hardening while providing technical leadership on upgrades and new technologies. You’ll mentor engineers, partner with Security and Architecture teams, and promote continuous improvement. This is a hands-on leadership role shaping critical infrastructure that powers essential services for millions, with a strong focus on reliability and innovation.

Pay / Benefits

• 26 days holiday
• pension up to 14%
• annual bonus up to 10.5%
• private healthcare
• flexible working options
• voluntary share scheme

Responsibilities

• Lead the support, optimisation and continuous improvement of enterprise hosting platforms
• Ensure highly available, secure and resilient infrastructure services 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
• Work closely with Security, Architecture and Operational teams to maintain best practice standards
• Mentor engineers and help develop technical capability across the team
• Support a culture of continuous improvement through monitoring, reporting and automation

Key requirements

• Strong enterprise Linux/Unix hosting platform experience
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration and lifecycle management
• Automation and configuration management using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Red Hat Satellite and OS lifecycle management
• Scripting (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

• Leadership and mentoring
• Collaborative cross-functional communication
• Problem-solving under complex platform scenarios
• RHEL administration and lifecycle management
• Automation with Ansible
• Red Hat Satellite

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