Infrastructure Engineer

WNTD; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking Senior VMware Engineers to support their large-scale on-premises VMware estate, focusing on ESXi and vCenter. This role offers the flexibility of mainly remote working with some presence required in Sheffield. The ideal candidate will have strong VMware expertise, scripting skills, and a collaborative approach to documentation and problem-solving.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years proven VMware virtualization experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with ESXi and vCenter in complex environments.
• Proficient in writing technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance VMware infrastructure.
• Perform capacity planning and health checks.
• Produce technical documentation for systems.

Skills

VMware expertise

PowerCLI

PowerShell

Teamwork

Documentation

Infrastructure Acumen

Scripting

Education

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP)

Job description

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Location: UK mainly remote, with 1/2 days per month in Sheffield

Contract: Inside IR35 - 6 Months

End Client: Financial Services

Position Summary

Our client is seeking Senior VMware Engineers to support our on-premises VMware estate. These roles require alignment to UK hours, out of hours working will also be required, with time off in lieu.

You will initially join the infrastructure support team focused on large-scale ESXi/vCenter clusters across one of the biggest vSphere deployments in the world. After an eight-week production support ramp-up, you'll transition into the specific support team, reporting to the Virtualisation Team Lead. The role will focus on the Load Balancer ESXi platform. The VMs are supported in collaboration with other teams. The roles require the review and approval of third-party virtual appliances, along with the creation of supporting documentation. The support team tasks include updating existing and creating new support documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance the VMware infrastructure in line with our virtualisation strategy and standards.
• Perform capacity planning and health checks across the environment.
• Support operational standards around patching, alerting, and resource optimization.
• Contribute to incident resolution, working with Broadcom (VMware) and other vendors as needed.
• Produce technical documentation (logical/physical/data flow diagrams).
• Configure alerts, alarms, and performance reports using scripts and automation tools.
• Provide insight into platform improvements based on hands-on analysis and monitoring.
• Certifying of third-party virtual appliances in line with our standards.

Required Skills & Experience

• VMware Expertise:
• At least 5 years proven VMware virtualisation experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with ESXi and vCenter in complex, enterprise-scale environments. Along with an understanding of NUMA and vNUMA.
• A thorough understanding of DRS, HA, Content Libraries and Distributed Switches.
• A full understanding of the ESXi lifecycle.
• Documentation: Comfortable writing technical documentation for handoffs, design, and troubleshooting.
• Teamwork: Ability to work as part of a team to ensure team success in the form of value-add deliverables.
• Scripting: Proficiency in PowerCLI and PowerShell, with an understanding of Terraform and Jenkins.
• Infrastructure Acumen: Strong understanding of networking, server, and storage fundamentals.
• An understanding of VCF concepts
• Knowledge of F5 LTM, DNS, VMWare NSX, DFW, Micro-segmentation.
• Background of working with the Agile methodology and associated tool sets - Jira, Confluence etc.

Required Certifications

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP) - Mandatory
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP) - Preferred

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Professional Services and Financial Services

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