🚀 Server & Storage Engineering Team Lead
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Carnival Cruise Line
- 📍 Location: Southampton
- 📅 Posted: Oct 20, 2025
**Job Description**
Carnival UK is in search of a **Server & Storage Engineering Team Leader** , who is crucial in supporting our technological direction and nurturing a high-performing team.
The **Engineering Team Leader** will take responsibility for deploying, configuring, and operating IT Infrastructure platforms hosted on our ship and shore locations. Leading the planning, implementation and optimisation of the technologies and processes used to maintain Infrastructure platforms, encompassing, hypervisors, data storage, installing, testing, or decommissioning and removing, systems or system components.
Your responsibilities will include:
Investigate and manage the adoption of tools, techniques, and processes (including automation) for the management of systems and services.
Lead, guide and mentor a team of engineers, and acting as an escalation point for colleagues across the Technology department
Ensure that operational procedures and documentation are fit for purpose and kept up to date. Ensuring that operational issues are identified, recorded, monitored, and resolved. Provides appropriate status and other reports to specialists, users, and managers.
Develops standards and guidelines for implementing data protection and disaster recovery functionality for all business applications and business data.
Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK08, offered as a full-time or part-time position, on a permanent basis. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.
**Requirements: Your Expertise and Leadership**
To thrive as an Engineering Lead, we're looking for:
Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams, with a passion for motivating, mentoring, and developing talent while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Strong experience with VMware vSphere, vCentre, SRM, Dell VXRAIL, and Microsoft identity technologies (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP).u202f
Proficiency in automation platforms (Ansible, Terraform Vmware Aria, PowerShell).
Solid understanding of Storage Area Networks and backup technologies (Dell Networker, Avamar, DPS, Veeam VB&R).u202f
Familiarity with compliance standards such as PCI-DSS, EUGDPR, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).u202f
**About You: A Catalyst for Change**
We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:
Speaks up u2013 Encourages open communication and team engagement.
Empowers u2013 Coaches others and fosters a high-performance environment.
Respects & protects u2013 Builds inclusive teams and promotes safety and sustainability.
Listens & learns u2013 Demonstrates curiosity and openness to feedback.
**Why Join Us?**
Working with us is about more than a job. It's about creating unforgettable holiday happiness for our guests and a fulfilling career for you. Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your wellbeing:
Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
Annual bonus
A friendly welcome with help settling in
Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment
In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
Life Assurance
Employee Shares Plan
Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal
**Ready to Lead?**
If guiding a technology team to new heights excites you, we're eager to hear from you. Apply now to start your journey with us, where your performance-led leadership will make a difference in our shared success.
**_#LI-Hybrid_**
_#CUK_
_#Job Functions: Information Technology;_
_Jade Weeks - #LI-BA1_
**About Us**
Holidays are one of lifeu2019s greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.
No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the worldu2019s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britainu2019s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.
Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.
Itu2019s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travelu2019s Employer of Choice.
Carnival UK is in search of a **Server & Storage Engineering Team Leader** , who is crucial in supporting our technological direction and nurturing a high-performing team.
The **Engineering Team Leader** will take responsibility for deploying, configuring, and operating IT Infrastructure platforms hosted on our ship and shore locations. Leading the planning, implementation and optimisation of the technologies and processes used to maintain Infrastructure platforms, encompassing, hypervisors, data storage, installing, testing, or decommissioning and removing, systems or system components.
Your responsibilities will include:
Investigate and manage the adoption of tools, techniques, and processes (including automation) for the management of systems and services.
Lead, guide and mentor a team of engineers, and acting as an escalation point for colleagues across the Technology department
Ensure that operational procedures and documentation are fit for purpose and kept up to date. Ensuring that operational issues are identified, recorded, monitored, and resolved. Provides appropriate status and other reports to specialists, users, and managers.
Develops standards and guidelines for implementing data protection and disaster recovery functionality for all business applications and business data.
Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK08, offered as a full-time or part-time position, on a permanent basis. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.
**Requirements: Your Expertise and Leadership**
To thrive as an Engineering Lead, we're looking for:
Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams, with a passion for motivating, mentoring, and developing talent while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Strong experience with VMware vSphere, vCentre, SRM, Dell VXRAIL, and Microsoft identity technologies (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP).u202f
Proficiency in automation platforms (Ansible, Terraform Vmware Aria, PowerShell).
Solid understanding of Storage Area Networks and backup technologies (Dell Networker, Avamar, DPS, Veeam VB&R).u202f
Familiarity with compliance standards such as PCI-DSS, EUGDPR, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).u202f
**About You: A Catalyst for Change**
We believe that diversity enriches our team. We're interested in candidates who:
Speaks up u2013 Encourages open communication and team engagement.
Empowers u2013 Coaches others and fosters a high-performance environment.
Respects & protects u2013 Builds inclusive teams and promotes safety and sustainability.
Listens & learns u2013 Demonstrates curiosity and openness to feedback.
**Why Join Us?**
Working with us is about more than a job. It's about creating unforgettable holiday happiness for our guests and a fulfilling career for you. Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your wellbeing:
Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
Annual bonus
A friendly welcome with help settling in
Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment
In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
Life Assurance
Employee Shares Plan
Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal
**Ready to Lead?**
If guiding a technology team to new heights excites you, we're eager to hear from you. Apply now to start your journey with us, where your performance-led leadership will make a difference in our shared success.
**_#LI-Hybrid_**
_#CUK_
_#Job Functions: Information Technology;_
_Jade Weeks - #LI-BA1_
**About Us**
Holidays are one of lifeu2019s greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.
No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the worldu2019s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britainu2019s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.
Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.
Itu2019s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travelu2019s Employer of Choice.
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