Hybrid Senior Infrastructure Engineer & Tech Lead (VMware)

Datasource; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 Days holiday

Company Car Scheme

Healthcare Scheme

Company Pension Scheme

Training Package/Budget

Great company advancement and support

Job summary

Datasource is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join the Cheltenham team. The role combines hands-on design and maintenance of on-prem and virtual infrastructure with leadership and mentoring responsibilities.

The position is hybrid, involving three days on-site in Cheltenham and two days remote. The candidate will lead infrastructure projects and support peers, with a focus on security, reliability, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Senior Infrastructure Engineer with leadership and mentoring responsibilities.
• Experience with on-prem technologies such as VMWare, Hyper-V and cloud-adjacent concepts.
• Proven ability to lead IT infrastructure projects end-to-end and work in an MSP environment.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, and implement physical and virtual IT infrastructure solutions for customer environments such as Proof of Concept work.
• Act as Technical Lead, providing technical direction and mentoring to junior team members.
• Deliver ongoing maintenance and support for deployed infrastructure, ensuring high availability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues in a timely and well-documented manner.
• Manage system health including patching, vulnerability management, backups, and hardware lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain scripts and automation tools to streamline common system administration tasks.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all deployed, monitored, and supported infrastructure.
• Ensure compliance with organisational security, privacy, and ethical standards at all times.

Skills

Tech lead

Team mentoring

Networking

VMware

Hyper-V

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

Bash

System administration

Backup

MSP experience

Customer facing

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Veeam

NetBackup

Cisco

Juniper

HP

Dell

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Linux

Windows

Job description

Datasource is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join the Cheltenham team. The role combines hands-on design and maintenance of on-prem and virtual infrastructure with leadership and mentoring responsibilities.

The position is hybrid, involving three days on-site in Cheltenham and two days remote. The candidate will lead infrastructure projects and support peers, with a focus on security, reliability, and documentation.