Azure & Hybrid Cloud Lead — Senior Systems Engineer

Hamilton Barnes; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension 15%

25 days leave

Free on-site lunch

Event tickets

Retail discounts

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes is recruiting a Senior Systems Engineer for a prestigious UK institution in Greater London. You will own the Windows/Linux server environment, manage Azure on-prem nodes and cloud services, and drive incident, problem and change management to ensure high availability and security.

You will lead capacity planning, asset/configuration management, and delivery of BAU projects across IT infrastructure and applications, collaborating with IT operations, suppliers, and internal teams

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of Azure services and on-premises/cloud hybrid infrastructure.
• Strong Windows Server, virtualization, and AD/DNS/DHCP experience.
• Experience with cloud services (Intune, Microsoft 365) and scripting (PowerShell).

Responsibilities

• Technical owner of the server infrastructure: compute, storage and network.
• Provide expert technical support and act as escalation point for systems.
• Lead performance monitoring and optimization for critical systems.
• Oversee change management, assess risks and ensure smooth deployments.
• Coordinate major incident response and stakeholder communication.
• Drive root-cause analysis and long-term problem solutions.
• Plan capacity and availability for scalable future needs.
• Maintain asset and configuration management records.
• Deliver BAU projects covering full lifecycles of apps and servers.
• Foster CSI and collaboration with IT products, suppliers and teams.

Skills

Azure services

Entra ID

Virtual Machines

Backup

Patch Management

ARC

Networking

File Sync

Virtual Desktops

Windows Server

Virtualization

Active Directory

DNS

DHCP

Group Policy

PowerShell

PKI

SQL Server

SCCM

DPM

Intune

Microsoft 365

Tools

Intune

Microsoft 365

Azure

Job description

Hamilton Barnes is recruiting a Senior Systems Engineer for a prestigious UK institution in Greater London. You will own the Windows/Linux server environment, manage Azure on-prem nodes and cloud services, and drive incident, problem and change management to ensure high availability and security.

You will lead capacity planning, asset/configuration management, and delivery of BAU projects across IT infrastructure and applications, collaborating with IT operations, suppliers, and internal teams