Sr.Lead Engineer - System Administration

1. Role Purpose: Leads complex system administration and compute operations across enterprise server environments, ensuring secure, reliable, scalable and well-governed platforms through advanced troubleshooting, automation, configuration standards, lifecycle management and continuous service improvement. 2.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end administration of Linux, Windows and Unix-based compute environments, including provisioning, configuration management, OS tuning, patching, upgrades and lifecycle maintenance.
• Design and implement automation scripts, repeatable workflows and operational runbooks to improve deployment speed, configuration consistency, environment hygiene and manual effort reduction.
• Resolve complex compute platform incidents and problems, lead root-cause analysis, drive corrective actions and provide technical escalation support for high-impact issues.
• Support capacity planning, performance monitoring, resource optimization and compute cost efficiency in partnership with infrastructure, cloud and platform teams.
• Maintain security baseline compliance through vulnerability remediation, system hardening, access control validation and audit-ready operational practices.
• Review technical changes, validate implementation quality, mentor junior engineers and promote engineering standards, documentation discipline and operational maturity.
• Ensure adherence to change control, incident management, access management and regulatory requirements while maintaining accurate configuration records and audit trails.

1. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• Compute platform uptime & SLA adherence
• MTTR reduction & escalation avoidance
• Patch compliance / security posture improvement
• Automation coverage & manual effort reduction
• Accuracy & compliance of configuration standards