Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Shared Services Connected Ltd; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services provider in the UK is seeking a skilled VMware Horizon Design Engineer based in Farnborough. The role involves driving the direction of EUC services, managing multi-site VDI Farms, and maintaining design artefacts. Candidates should have relevant education or VMware certification, and experience in designing virtualisation infrastructures with strong networking skills. Benefits include 25 days vacation, health cover, and a £5400 car allowance.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus option to buy more

Private health cover

Life assurance

Pension plan

Generous flexible benefits fund

£5400 car allowance

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and deploying multi-site VDI Farms using VMware technologies.
• Good understanding of networking and virtual networking.
• Experience with hardening Virtualisation Infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Drive direction of all tasks in the EUC services workstream.
• Lead VDI Services deployments through multiple environments.
• Maintain design artefacts such as Low-Level Designs.

Skills

VMware Horizon Design

Multi-site VDI Farms

VMware vCenter

ESXi

Networking understanding

Analytical skills

Education

Vocational / Diploma / Associate Degree in technical field

VMware certification

Tools

NSX-T

Unified Access Gateway

Dynamic Environment Manager

Gold Image Management

AppVolumes Management

Job description

What you will be doing:

• Drive the direction of all tasks allocated to the EUC services workstream.
• Responsible for design of multi-site / Mutli-Tenancy VDI Farms using VMware Horizon View and related technologies.
• Produce and maintain design artefacts, such Low-Level Designs, Release Notes, Vitrualisation Services related fail-over / disaster recovery instruction.
• Detail the build process, new procedures and review / update.
• Be the main point of contact for all virtualisation related matters.
• Lead all aspects of VDI Services deployments through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to test and reference, through to the important production systems.
• Analyse, tackle and correct issues; performing problem resolution end-to-end.
• Attend Client facing meetings.
• Develop and maintain third party supplier relationships.
• Provide regular updates to the Technical and project leadership about every facet of Virtualisation Services delivery.
• Intensify any issues, which may impact the delivery of the Virtulisation Services components.

What You'll bring:

• Vocational / Diploma / Associate Degree (technical field) or relevant VMware certification or relevant experience with as a VMware Horizon Design Engineer.
• Skilled in designing and deployment of multi-site, VDI Farms utilising VMware vCenter, ESXi and Horizon View VDI (Connection Servers + Desktop Pools), plus the following technologies :
• Unified Access Gateway.
• Dynamic Environment Manager (Roaming profiles / user setting retention).
• Gold Image Management.
• AppVolumes Management + Application Management.
• Experience with the hardening of Virtualisation Infrastructures using CIS Benchmarks or NIST SP 800-53 controls.
• Experienced with build alongside the implementation of the failover and disaster recovery of Virtualisation services.
• Experience of certificate management as relates to VMware virtualisation.
• Used to working in Multi-Datacentre Environments where availability, resilience and fault tolerance are key elements of every design.
• Have a good understanding of networking as relates to VMware virtual networking and how the virtual networking interoperates with physical networking, including experience of implementing and configuring NSX-T.
• Good written, communication, fixing and analytical skills.

It would be great if you had :

• Experience with the design and build of client devices, such as Thin / Zero / Thick clients with Windows or Linux-based Operating Systems, such as Windows 11 or BeCrypt Paradox.
• Experience of supporting Microsoft Windows Server services, such as Active Directory (AD), Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Active Directory File Service (AD FS).
• Experience of Cisco-based network services.
• Experience of Micorosoft implementations of DNS and DHCP technologies.
• Knowledge of Network Attached Storage, block and file solutions as relates to provisioning for virtualisation.
• Technical Infrastructure skill in an enterprise environment, for example : Advanced Infrastructure skills covering administration, fault finding and diagnosis.
• Have a good understanding of MOD or HMG 'Secure by Design' principles and practices.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type:

Permanent

Location:

Office based in Farnborough

Security Clearance Level:

Eligible for DV Clearance

Internal Recruiter:

Jane

Salary:

To £65K Depending on experience.

Benefits:

25 days annual leave with the choice to buy extra days, single private health cover, life assurance, pension, generous flexible benefits fund and £5400 car allowance.