Principle Enterprise Service Administrator (data centre)

CompanyStott and May

LocationLondon, England, United Kingdom

Posted At1/20/2026

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Description

Job Description

Enterprise Services Principal Administrator (Data Centre)

Location: Hybrid – onsite 3 days per week - West London

Salary: £87,000

Role Purpose

Our client is undergoing a multi-year transformation to deliver a modern, resilient, and evergreen hybrid infrastructure, built on cloud-native and software-defined data centre principles.

The Enterprise Services Principal Administrator owns the end-to-end physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure platforms. The role is responsible for shaping and delivering the infrastructure strategy, defining clear roadmaps, principles, and guardrails, and ensuring the platform is secure, scalable, and optimised.

This role is central to the next 3–5 years of infrastructure transformation, combining strategic leadership with hands-on expertise, and working closely with Infrastructure, Application, Architecture, and Security teams.

Key Responsibilities

Own and deliver the hybrid infrastructure strategy and 3–5 year roadmap.
Define current and future-state infrastructure landscapes.
Lead cloud adoption and modernisation across the organisation.

Establish and govern infrastructure standards, policies, and best practices.

Provide technical leadership across on-prem, virtualised, and cloud platforms.

Advise stakeholders on solution options, risks, costs, and benefits.

Identify and mitigate infrastructure risks while maintaining architectural integrity.

Drive continuous improvement, quality, and consistency across platforms.

Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, PMO, and delivery teams.

Participate in the on-call rota.

Key Technologies & Experience

VMware VCF (NSX-T, Avi, Tanzu)
Cloud & IaC: Azure, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab
Containers: Kubernetes, Docker Swarm
Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu)
Infrastructure: VMware, HPE, Cisco
Networking: WAN/LAN/WLAN, Routing, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Load Balancing, ZTNA
Security & Identity: PAM, IAM, Active Directory, Entra ID

Skills & Competencies

Strong technical leadership with hands-on capability when required.
Proven experience delivering infrastructure transformation.
Strategic thinker with a medium- to long-term outlook.

Excellent problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills.

Ability to influence, build consensus, and set technical direction.

Strong communication skills with experience presenting to varied audiences.

Experience coaching and mentoring technical teams.

Success Measures

Delivery of a clear, funded 3–5 year infrastructure roadmap.
High availability and reliability in line with 99.999% SLA.
Improved platform maturity, automation, and operational efficiency.
Strong engagement and adoption across IT teams.
Consistent alignment with organisational values and ways of working.

If you are interested pleas email your CV to [email protected] for immediate consideration