About the role

  • Lead Systems Engineer managing stability, security, and resilience of hybrid systems at Gentrack. Requires expertise in Microsoft environments and mentoring a small team.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as ICT Site Lead for London and senior technical authority for UK & EMEA
  • Own platform stability, resilience, and service continuity
  • Act as Tier-3 escalation lead for high-impact incidents
  • Provide L2/L3 ownership and regional escalation authority for UK & EMEA
  • Strengthen escalation pathways between global L1 and engineering
  • Reduce repeat incidents through automation, optimisation, and documentation
  • Operate within ITIL/ITSM frameworks using Jira Service Management
  • Design, optimize, and maintain Microsoft server environments, ensuring security hardening, lifecycle governance, and performance resilience
  • Maintain security, patching, compliance, and lifecycle management
  • Oversee enterprise storage, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities
  • Lead DR testing and maintain recovery readiness
  • Provide technical oversight for LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, and site systems
  • Support AV and collaboration technology
  • Mentor and prioritise workload for 1–2 Systems Engineers
  • Drive engineering standards and operational excellence

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with on-prem Microsoft server environments.
  • Expertise in Active Directory, Windows Server, Group Policy, and core Microsoft services.
  • Experience managing storage, backup, and disaster recovery platforms.
  • Solid knowledge of virtualisation platforms (VMware / hypervisors).
  • Working knowledge of enterprise networking (LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi).
  • Hands-on experience with Jamf and Microsoft Intune.
  • Strong working knowledge of Jira Service Management.
  • Good understanding of ITIL / ITSM, particularly escalation and problem management.

Benefits

  • Personal growth – in leadership, commercial acumen and technical excellence
  • To be part of a global, winning high growth organization – with a career path to match
  • A vibrant, culture full of people passionate about transformation and making a difference -with a one team, collaborative ethos
  • A competitive reward package that truly awards our top talent
  • A chance to make a true impact on society and the planet

Job title

Lead Systems Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Location requirements

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