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United Utilities

Lead Hosting Platform Engineer

Location flexibility:  3 office days / week – 3 days in the office, 2 days from home
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Job Description

📍 Lingley Mere, Warrington (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)
🕒 1 in 6 standby rota
💰 Competitive Salary + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

Drive the platforms that power critical services

At United Utilities, technology is at the heart of delivering essential services to millions of customers. We're looking for an experienced Lead Hosting Platform Engineer to join our Hosting Platform Services team and play a key role in ensuring our enterprise hosting environments remain secure, resilient and available 24/7.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior infrastructure professional with deep expertise in Linux platforms, automation, virtualisation and enterprise hosting technologies to lead the evolution of our critical infrastructure estate.

What you'll be doing

As a technical lead and subject matter expert, you'll:

  • Lead the support, optimisation and continuous improvement of enterprise hosting platforms
  • Ensure highly available, secure and resilient infrastructure services across on-premise and hybrid cloud environments
  • Drive platform automation, lifecycle management, patching and security hardening
  • Provide technical leadership on upgrades, implementations and new technologies
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex platform issues
  • Work closely with Security, Architecture and Operational teams to maintain best practice standards
  • Mentor engineers and help develop technical capability across the team
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    • What we're looking for

    We're particularly interested in candidates with strong enterprise Linux/Unix hosting platform experience, including:

    ✅ Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration and lifecycle management
    ✅ Linux/Unix platforms within large-scale enterprise environments
    ✅ Automation and configuration management using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    ✅ Red Hat Satellite and OS lifecycle management
    ✅ Scripting skills including Bash, PowerShell, Perl or similar
    ✅ VMware and virtualisation technologies
    ✅ High-availability hosting platforms and infrastructure
    ✅ Security hardening, SELinux, TLS, SSL and PKI
    ✅ Azure Cloud and Hybrid Infrastructure environments – Including Windows Server
    ✅ Enterprise storage and backup technologies including Veeam, SAN, HPE Alletra or Dell PowerStore

    Ideally, you'll also hold (or be working towards) RHCSA, RHCE and/or ITIL certifications.

    Why join United Utilities?

    You'll be joining a highly respected team responsible for maintaining and evolving critical infrastructure services across an organisation managing over 50,000 technology assets.

    In return, we offer:

    • 26 days holiday, rising to 30 with service, plus bank holidays
    • Up to 14% employer pension contribution
    • Up to 10.5% annual bonus
    • Private healthcare
    • Enhanced parental leave and flexible working options
    • Wellbeing support programmes
    • Flexible benefits package
    • Voluntary share scheme

    Ready to make an impact?

    If you're a senior Linux and Hosting Platform specialist looking to influence enterprise-scale infrastructure, drive technical innovation and lead platform excellence within a critical-services environment, we'd love to hear from you.

    Apply today and help shape the future of technology at United Utilities.

    Working at United Utilities

    3 office days / week – 3 days in the office, 2 days from home

    A little flex time

    Company employees:

    7,500

    Gender diversity (m:f):

    65:35

    Hiring in countries

    United Kingdom

    Office Locations

    Company benefits

    26 days annual leave + bank holidays
    Annual bonus – Bonus levels vary depending on your role grade
    Buy or sell annual leave – Buy or sell up to 5 days per year
    Death in service – covered for 4 times pensionable earnings
    Cinema discounts
    Employee recognition scheme – Colleague led recognition scheme with monthly winners
    Cycle to work scheme
    Dental coverage
    Collaboration spaces
    Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
    Employee assistance programme
    Enhanced maternity leave – Up to 26 weeks leave at full pay
    Enhanced pension match/contribution – Up to 21% combined contributions
    Enhanced sick days
    Ergonomic workstations
    Faith rooms
    Family health insurance
    Further education support – Ongoing learning opportunities through apprenticeships and vocational training
    Gym membership – On-site gym at our head office & discounts on local gyms for those not based there
    Health cash plan
    Health insurance
    In house training
    Mental health days – 1 wellbeing day per year (in addition to annual leave)
    Mental health first aiders
    Compassionate leave
    Enhanced paternity leave – Up to 4 weeks leave at full pay
    Mental health platform access – Offering mental health consultations, health checks, digital fitness resources, and wellbeing support.
    On-site gym
    Open to compressed hours
    Open to part time work for some roles
    Adoption leave
    Private GP service – via our virtual GP - available to you and your loved ones
    Professional subscriptions
    Referral bonus – of £500
    Neonatal leave
    Reservist leave – Reservists/Army Reserve with 6 months service are entitled to 10 days paid leave per year to attend the annual training camp.
    Restaurant discounts
    Secure on-site parking
    Sensory-Friendly Setup
    Shared parental leave
    Will writing
    Carer’s leave
    On-site childcare – Only at our head office
    Income protection