# Senior Lead Associate - Hosting

**Company**: Davies
**Location**: Viman Nagar, Maharashtra
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Senior Lead Associate - Hosting drives strategic uplift of hosting services through elimination of technical and operational debt, establishment of robust governance and control frameworks, and delivery of enterprise Operational Hygiene objectives.

## Key Responsibilities

### Hosting Operational Hygiene delivery

- Conduct comprehensive assessments of hosting service documentation, operational artefacts, and knowledge assets to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities.

- Drive standardisation and optimisation of operational procedures and knowledge management practices.

- Lead targeted technical debt reduction initiatives focused on eliminating accumulated patching debt, reducing long-term vulnerability exposure, and improving platform security posture.

- Assess and remediate configuration management deficiencies.

- Develop and deliver lifecycle modernisation initiatives that address technology obsolescence.

- Improve asset governance and estate visibility.

- Enhance monitoring and observability capabilities.

- Drive automation and orchestration opportunities.

- Lead infrastructure optimisation initiatives.

- Deliver security posture improvement programmes.

### Documentation and First Line of Defence cyber controls

- Conduct structured reviews of hosting governance artefacts.

- Design, define, and document operational and cyber-control frameworks.

- Establish comprehensive control operating models.

- Implement sustainable evidence management and assurance practices.

- Ensure defined controls are operationally viable, measurable, and fully embedded within service ownership frameworks.

### Leadership and stakeholder management

- Partner with Service Ownership, Architecture, Cyber Security, Risk, Internal Audit, Change Management, and platform engineering teams.

- Govern the delivery of Operational Hygiene initiatives.

- Champion standardisation, automation, technical debt reduction, preventative controls, and continuous service improvement initiatives.

## Experience & Education

- Demonstrable experience leading infrastructure service-improvement, technical-debt remediation or Operational Hygiene programmes.

- Experience converting broad technical risks into prioritised, measurable improvement initiatives.

- Experience managing cross-functional technical delivery across hosting, architecture, cyber security, change and service ownership.

- Strong track record of eliminating patch, vulnerability, configuration, lifecycle, asset, monitoring, automation, capacity, performance and documentation debt.

- Demonstrable experience reviewing and improving technical documentation and knowledge articles.

- Experience implementing controlled changes and transitioning completed improvements to service owners.

- Ability to establish delivery governance, manage dependencies and communicate outcomes to technical and senior stakeholders.

## Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

- Proven leadership of infrastructure Operational Hygiene or service-improvement delivery.

- Advanced knowledge of VMware vSphere / ESXi and Windows Server and/or Linux hosting environments.

- Strong knowledge of storage, virtualisation, configuration, monitoring and infrastructure lifecycle practices.

- Demonstrable experience removing accumulated patch, vulnerability, configuration and technology-lifecycle debt.

- Strong understanding of infrastructure security controls, hardening standards and audit remediation.

- Proven ability to automate or permanently remove recurring manual operational activity.

- Ability to define measurable target conditions and produce evidence of completed improvement outcomes.

- Experience delivering controlled technical change and handing completed improvements to service owners.

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## Skills

### Required
- VMware vSphere / ESXi
- Windows Server
- Linux
- storage
- virtualisation
- configuration
- monitoring
- infrastructure lifecycle practices
- infrastructure security controls
- hardening standards
- audit remediation

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