Team Leader - Financial Management

Role : Hosting Platform Lead Location : London – hybrid working Salary : £80,000 - 85,000 + bonus + benefits We have a great opportunity with one of our insurance clients looking for a Hosting Platform Lead, responsible for the day-to-day technical management of the IT hosting platform and leading a team to ensure the provision of a stable and secure hosting platform. You will own and drive the data centre platform technologies, whilst optimising team performance, leading datacentre platform services, enhancing processes (reactive and proactive management), implementing security patches, supporting audits, and assisting with disaster recovery tests. Oversee availability, performance, and capacity of servers, storage, and backup solutions. Provide day-to-day technical leadership and manage a team of System Administrators, including development and training plans. Perform hands-on technical work and oversee team workload, projects, upgrades, and operational issues. Oversee platform security, vulnerability remediation, and patching using SCCM, ensuring best practices for availability and security. Work within the ITIL framework, ensuring changes are documented and release processes followed, alongside maintaining system documentation and knowledge base. Collaborate on project design and delivery, ensuring service-ready solutions in Production. Produce reports on the hosting environment and assist with budget planning and execution. Strong knowledge of all aspects of Microsoft Windows Server (including DNS, DHCP, DFS, Networking, PowerShell, etc.) Been part of a global company supporting on-premises data centres ~ Experience with PRTG Network Monitor, RHEL and Azure Site Recovery Experience creating ServiceNow process flows connecting to external systems Experience in a regulated environment, i.e. financial services/insurance, etc. If you’re interested in learning more about this opportunity, please get in touch!