OT Infrastructure Engineer — Flexible, Live‑Environment Specialist

SSE plc; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Gym memberships

Online GP

Counselling service

Tech/Transport loan (Cycle to Work)

Maternity and adoption pay

Paternity leave

Job summary

SSE plc invites applications for an OT Infrastructure Engineer to help operate, support and improve the OT infrastructure underpinning the transmission network. You will help keep services stable, secure and recoverable across live environments and participate in controlled changes and improvements.

You do not need prior OT experience; the role values transferable skills in reliable infrastructure, incident response and robust change management.

Qualifications

• Experience in running infrastructure in live environments with emphasis on reliability, security and availability.
• Ability to monitor health, investigate incidents, support capacity planning and maintain stable services.
• Experience delivering infrastructure changes, upgrades, deployments or lifecycle activity in controlled environments.
• Familiarity with Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, virtualization, backup/recovery, patching, vulnerability management, MS Server, Linux, SCCM/MECM, WSUS, PKI and anti-malware platforms.
• Collaborative working style with practical problem solving and cross-team support.

Responsibilities

• Support the OT Infrastructure Manager with operation, support and continuous improvement of infrastructure services used across Operational Technology.
• Maintain health, performance and resilience of infrastructure platforms and ensure issues are identified, investigated and resolved in a controlled way.
• Support a range of infrastructure services from central servers to systems at substations and third-party hosted platforms.
• Collaborate with operational teams, project teams, suppliers and stakeholders to deliver stable, secure infrastructure changes.
• Maintain backup, recovery, patching, vulnerability management and operations processes to keep services secure and fit for purpose.

Skills

Live infrastructure experience

Monitoring platform health

Infrastructure changes deployment

Active Directory

DNS

Group Policy

Virtualisation

Backup & recovery

Patching

Vulnerability management

Microsoft Server

Linux

SCCM/MECM

WSUS

PKI & anti-malware

Collaborative working style

Job description

SSE plc invites applications for an OT Infrastructure Engineer to help operate, support and improve the OT infrastructure underpinning the transmission network. You will help keep services stable, secure and recoverable across live environments and participate in controlled changes and improvements.

You do not need prior OT experience; the role values transferable skills in reliable infrastructure, incident response and robust change management.