Platform Engineer

Pulse Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Funded Training & Certifications

Job summary

Pulse Group is exclusively looking for a Platform Engineer to join the Data Centre Services team of a world‑leading university. The role focuses on the physical infrastructure behind cutting‑edge research and teaching, spanning on‑prem storage, backup, and three data centres including a new HPC facility.

You will handle enterprise storage and backup operations, drive a NetWorker to Commvault migration, and contribute to major infrastructure projects with independence and ownership.

Qualifications

• Good understanding of servers, storage, networking and infrastructure.
• Experience with IBM Storage, Fibre Channel, Rubrik, NetWorker or Commvault.
• Comfortable working across on-prem / Data Centre environments.
• Linux experience would be highly beneficial but isn’t essential.
• Independent worker who can take ownership.
• Hands-on Data Centre experience such as racking, stacking and cabling would be a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise storage and backup operations across Data Centres.
• Support infrastructure across multiple Data Centres and storage deployment.
• Lead storage procurement and deployment activities.
• Oversee migration from NetWorker to Commvault during the project.

Skills

Servers Storage Networking

Infrastructure

Tools

IBM Storage

Fibre Channel

Rubrik

NetWorker

Commvault

Job description

London / Hybrid – 2 days per week in White City

Fully Funded Training & Certifications

Pulse Group are exclusively looking for a Platform Engineer to join the Data Centre Services team of one of the world’s leading universities.

Our client is a globally recognised institution at the forefront of science, technology, engineering, medicine and business, with more than 20,000 students and a reputation for world-leading research and innovation. Their technology estate supports cutting-edge research across multiple London campuses and specialist facilities.

You’ll be joining the team responsible for the physical infrastructure behind that research and teaching, working across enterprise storage and backup spanning three data centres, including a newly built High Performance Computing (HPC) facility.

This is a proper hands-on infrastructure role, not DevOps, with the opportunity to take real ownership of some significant infrastructure projects.

What we’re looking for:

• Good understanding of servers, storage, networking and infrastructure
• Experience with technologies such as IBM Storage, Fibre Channel, Rubrik, NetWorker or Commvault
• Comfortable working across traditional on-prem / Data Centre environments
• Linux experience would be highly beneficial, but isn’t essential
• Someone comfortable taking ownership and working independently
• Hands-on Data Centre experience such as racking, stacking and cabling would be a bonus

What you’ll be getting stuck into:

There’s plenty happening from day one, including enterprise storage and backup operations, infrastructure across multiple Data Centres, storage procurement and deployment, and a major NetWorker → Commvault migration kicking off in Q1 2027.

If you’re an Infrastructure / Platform Engineer with a strong storage and backup background and this sounds interesting, we’d love to hear from you.