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OT Infrastructure Engineer

SSE PLC · Glasgow, SCT, United Kingdom
Glasgow, SCT, United KingdomFull time57,150-68,295 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
Benefits include private healthcare and gym membership discounts, an online GP, 24/7 counselling, interest-free loans for technology and transport season tickets, a Cycle to Work scheme, and family leave entitlements.
Location
Glasgow, SCT, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

The OT Infrastructure Engineer supports and improves infrastructure services underpinning Operational Technology for an electricity transmission network. The role helps keep live systems stable, secure, and recoverable by monitoring platform health, resolving incidents, delivering controlled changes, and maintaining backup, recovery, patching, and vulnerability-management processes across central servers, operational substations, and third-party hosted platforms.

Benefits

Private healthcare and gym membership discountsOnline GP24/7 counselling serviceInterest-free technology and transport season ticket loansCycle to Work schemeMaternity and adoption payPaternity leave

Qualifications

  • Experience supporting live infrastructure where reliability, security, and service availability are important.
  • Experience monitoring platform health, investigating incidents, supporting capacity management, and maintaining stable services.
  • Experience delivering infrastructure changes, upgrades, deployments, or lifecycle activity in a controlled environment.
  • Experience with, or ability to quickly learn, technologies and practices such as Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, virtualisation, backup and recovery, patching, vulnerability management, Microsoft Server, Linux, SCCM or MECM, WSUS, PKI, and anti-malware platforms.
  • Collaborative approach to learning, problem solving, and supporting critical services.

Responsibilities

  • Support the operation and continuous improvement of Operational Technology infrastructure services.
  • Maintain infrastructure platform health, performance, and resilience; investigate and resolve issues in a controlled manner.
  • Support central server environments, operational substation systems, and third-party hosted platforms.
  • Coordinate with operational teams, project teams, suppliers, and other stakeholders to deliver stable, secure, and supportable infrastructure changes.
  • Maintain backup, recovery, patching, vulnerability management, and operational support processes.

Skills

LinuxWindows Server

Work schedule

Full timeFlexible working options

Industry

Electricity transmissionOperational Technology

Security clearance

UK Government SC-level vetting requiredVetting criteria normally include five years of UK residency

Relocation

No