Senior Systems & Storage Engineer – Hybrid Cloud

Universal Music Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Personal Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

25 paid days of annual leave

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee Discounts

Job summary

Universal Music Group UK is seeking an exceptional Systems Engineer to join the Infrastructure Engineering Team in London. You will own and deliver compute and storage infrastructure projects, spanning on‑premises and cloud, ensuring secure, scalable, and high‑availability designs.

The role focuses on architecture, design and implementation with limited day‑to‑day operations, offering leadership in proofs‑of‑concept, capacity planning, and knowledge transfer across engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of systems or infrastructure engineering experience with enterprise compute/storage.
• Experience designing scalable, production-grade infrastructure in complex environments.
• Hands-on in hybrid setups with on-premises and public cloud.
• Strong OS knowledge across Linux and Windows Server.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical designs.
• Proven collaboration across cross-functional teams and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of enterprise compute and storage solutions across on-premises and cloud.
• Define compute/storage architecture, standards, and long-term strategy.
• Develop scalable, secure, resilient infrastructure designs aligned to requirements.
• Maintain enterprise standards, reference architectures, and documentation.
• Serve as liaison between stakeholders, infrastructure, cloud, and IT teams.
• Review solutions for quality, reliability, security, and compliance.
• Lead proofs-of-concept and evaluations of new technologies.
• Provide Tier-4 escalation support for complex issues and root-cause analysis.
• Communicate status/risks to peers and leadership; mentor teams.

Skills

VMware/Hyper-V

Enterprise storage

Linux

Windows Server

Hybrid cloud

Capacity planning

Disaster recovery

Technical documentation

Stakeholder communication

Engineering mentorship

Tools

SAN/NAS storage

vSphere

Public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Universal Music Group UK is seeking an exceptional Systems Engineer to join the Infrastructure Engineering Team in London. You will own and deliver compute and storage infrastructure projects, spanning on‑premises and cloud, ensuring secure, scalable, and high‑availability designs.

The role focuses on architecture, design and implementation with limited day‑to‑day operations, offering leadership in proofs‑of‑concept, capacity planning, and knowledge transfer across engineering teams.