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The role focuses on improving service maturity, audit readiness, risk posture, documentation quality, and control effectiveness through structured remediation and continuous improvement initiatives. Acting as a catalyst for service optimisation and operational excellence, the role delivers sustainable, measurable improvements to the hosting estate and its supporting governance model, independent of day-to-day operational service delivery\nKey Responsibilities\nResponsibilities & Duties*\n\nHosting Operational Hygiene delivery\nConduct comprehensive assessments of hosting service documentation, operational artefacts, and knowledge assets to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities, delivering enhanced standards, operating models, process documentation, dependency mapping, and service support frameworks.\nDrive the standardisation and optimisation of operational procedures and knowledge management practices, establishing consistent execution models that improve service quality, governance, and operational maturity.\nLead targeted technical debt reduction initiatives focused on eliminating accumulated patching debt, reducing long-term vulnerability exposure, and improving platform security posture outside of routine operational maintenance activities.\nAssess and remediate configuration management deficiencies, including configuration drift, legacy standards, policy inconsistencies, insecure settings, and technical control weaknesses.\nDevelop and deliver lifecycle modernisation initiatives that address technology obsolescence through the planned uplift, replacement, or retirement of end-of-life and end-of-support infrastructure components.\nImprove asset governance and estate visibility by identifying ownership gaps, classification inaccuracies, unmanaged assets, and CMDB integrity issues, delivering sustainable improvements in configuration management practices.\nEnhance monitoring and observability capabilities by identifying service visibility gaps, refining alerting strategies, improving signal quality, and introducing meaningful service-health metrics and operational insights.\nDrive automation and orchestration opportunities that reduce operational complexity, improve consistency, and minimise recurring manual intervention through engineering-led improvements.\nLead infrastructure optimisation initiatives focused on capacity modelling, performance improvement, resource rationalisation, and sustainable platform scalability.\nDeliver security posture improvement programmes by identifying and remediating infrastructure control weaknesses through hardening, segmentation, control enhancement, and remediation activities arising from audit, assurance, and risk-management outcomes\nDocumentation and First Line of Defence cyber controls\nConduct structured reviews of hosting governance artefacts, including policies, standards, control frameworks, procedures, and assurance evidence, identifying opportunities to improve clarity, consistency, effectiveness, and audit readiness.\nDesign, define, and document operational and cyber-control frameworks required for effective First Line of Defence execution across the hosting estate, ensuring alignment with risk, governance, compliance, and assurance requirements.\nEstablish comprehensive control operating models, including control objectives, scope, ownership, execution methodology, operating cadence, evidence requirements, exception management processes, and escalation pathways.\nImplement sustainable evidence management and assurance practices that enable control effectiveness to be consistently demonstrated to Risk, Cyber Security, Internal Audit, and external assurance stakeholders.\nEnsure defined controls are operationally viable, measurable, and fully embedded within service ownership frameworks before transition into steady-state operational governance\nLeadership and stakeholder management\nPartner with Service Ownership, Architecture, Cyber Security, Risk, Internal Audit, Change Management, and platform engineering teams to define target-state operating standards, control frameworks, governance requirements, and acceptance criteria.\nGovern the delivery of Operational Hygiene initiatives through appropriate change and risk management frameworks, ensuring improvements are transitioned only when target outcomes, documentation, controls, ownership models, and evidential requirements have been formally accepted.\nChampion standardisation, automation, technical debt reduction, preventative controls, and continuous service improvement initiatives that improve service maturity, reduce operational risk, and minimise future demand on operational support teams.\nExperience & Education*\n Demonstrable experience leading infrastructure service-improvement, technical-debt remediation or Operational Hygiene programmes.\nExperience converting broad technical risks into prioritised, measurable improvement initiatives with clear completion evidence.\nExperience managing cross-functional technical delivery across hosting, architecture, cyber security, change and service ownership.\nStrong track record of eliminating patch, vulnerability, configuration, lifecycle, asset, monitoring, automation, capacity, performance and documentation debt.\nDemonstrable experience reviewing and improving technical documentation and knowledge articles to strengthen and standardise operating procedures, enable consistent execution and improve operational effectiveness.\nExperience implementing controlled changes and transitioning completed improvements to service owners.\nAbility to establish delivery governance, manage dependencies and communicate outcomes to technical and senior stakeholders.\nExperience defining measures that evidence risk reduction, reduction in manual effort and improvement in service manageability or supportability.\nOperational Hygiene and service improvement\n Technical-debt identification, prioritisation and remediation planning.\nOutcome definition, benefits tracking and evidence-based closure.\nAutomation and removal of recurring manual operational effort.\nProblem elimination and systemic root-cause remediation.\nHosting technology\n Windows Server and Linux platforms.\nVMware vSphere / ESXi and Hyper-V.\nSAN/NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, storage zoning and LUN provisioning.\nHosting monitoring, observability, configuration management and CMDB practices.\nInfrastructure security hardening, vulnerability remediation and lifecycle management.\nLeadership and control\n Improvement backlog management, prioritisation and delivery governance.\nChange control, risk management, stakeholder communication and acceptance criteria.\nEngineering standards, technical documentation and dependency mapping.\nSkills, Knowledge & Expertise\n Essential requirement (non-negotiable)\n\nCandidate must have:\nProven leadership of infrastructure Operational Hygiene or service-improvement delivery\nAdvanced knowledge of VMware vSphere / ESXi and Windows Server and/or Linux hosting environments.\nStrong knowledge of storage, virtualisation, configuration, monitoring and infrastructure lifecycle practices.\nDemonstrable experience 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