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.

3. 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