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Job Title
Lead Server Engineer
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience
3+ years
Salary
Job Published
13 August 2026
Job Reference No.
509173

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Oversee infrastructure including support, design, building and maintaining operating systems, application software and system management tools

  • Lead infrastructure upgrades, refresh cycles, and capacity planning

  • Conduct Risk assessments and assist with the baseline requirements for changes in the infrastructure in line with the agreed change management processes

  • Commission and decommission hardware and software and other related infrastructure components in accordance to established safety, quality vendor specific best practices

  • Support, Design and build installation procedures and standards

  • Support asset management initiatives through ensuring that the administration, storage, distribution, movement and disposal of hardware and software assets are carried out

  • Contribute to the planning, implementation, building and configuration of IT Infrastructure maintenance and installation work

  • Oversee Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and identity-related infrastructure

  • Manage storage platforms (SAN/NAS), backup systems, and disaster recovery solutions

  • Manage and optimise cloud resources (Azure/AWS), including compute, storage, and networking

  • Implement hybrid identity, domain services, and workload migrations

  • Support automation initiatives

  • Implement and enforce security standards (CIS, ISO 27001, NIST)

  • Communicate Security risks and Security Processes to business and IT that is fit for purpose

  • Log and Track vulnerability assessments and security breaches within the environment and support users and IT users by defining their access rights and privileges

  • Create test cases and test scripts to test new and existing software and services for vulnerabilities

  • Contribute to the Support, Design, Management and execution of the data protection and disaster recovery functionality within the environment

  • Maintain patching, vulnerability remediation, and server hardening standards

  • Ensure security controls, audits, and compliance frameworks are applied to all server environments

  • Enforce least-privilege access, certificate management, and security baselines

  • Provide technical leadership to server infrastructure engineers

  • Work closely with network, application, and cybersecurity teams to ensure cohesive operations

  • Lead infrastructure projects, migrations, and service-improvement initiatives

  • Supporting the SLA, RTO and RPO objectives

  • Ability to manage, support and monitor systems and infrastructure within scope

  • Execute operation procedures including infrastructure configuration, installation, maintenance and backups

  • Communicate and coordinate with 3rd party vendors in relation project and day to day deliverables while acting as an escalation point between the organization and the vendor

  • Act as Tier 3 escalation for complex server and infrastructure incidents

  • Conduct root-cause analysis and implement preventive measures

  • Maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, processes, and standards

  • Contribute to infrastructure strategy, technology selection, and standards

  • Lead server modernisation projects, including lifecycle upgrades and migrations

  • Optimise performance, resilience, and cost efficiency across server platforms

  • Collaborate closely with network, security, and application teams

  • Support and enforce the IT security Policy initiatives

  • Support the asset management process for both hardware and software within scope

  • Adhere to Vendor Specific Best Practices

  • Monitor, Evaluate and recommend necessary changes to infrastructure design, systems and processes within scope

  • Coordinate and support the project plan's cost, time, scope and quality deliverables

  • Ensure that all project deliverables are captured and updated on the project plan

  • Execute infrastructure changes successfully by adhering to change management principles

  • Deliver system guidelines for cost, productivity, schedule, and quality

  • Perform risk and business impact assessments and ensure that due diligence and research forms part of the change management process

  • Enforce the organisations risk, change and business continuity initiatives

  • Managing timely communications to the end user; ensuring the response SLA is met and the user is kept up to date during the lifecycle of the incident/service request

  • Ensure that 3rd party vendors adhere to the organizations approved processes and procedures

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