Platform Engineer at DataVita

DataVita; Blantyre; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Pension: 5% employee, 5% employer

Life assurance at 4x salary

Group income protection at 70% of wage

Help@Hand: remote GP and more

Cycle to Work and EV salary sacrifice

6 fully expensed company events per ye

Job summary

DataVita is seeking a Platform Engineer to contribute across virtualization, compute, storage, network and backup infra in its on-site High Blantyre data centres. You will work across customer and internal projects, with opportunities to learn new technologies and drive automation.

Role involves broad responsibilities, from troubleshooting to building out DataVita's cloud and HPC platform, reporting to the Head of Platform Engineering. A hands-on, curious engineer will thrive here.

Qualifications

• Experience with VMware vSphere/ESXi in production environments.
• Hands-on Hyper-V administration and day-to-day operation.
• Knowledge of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and Fortinet products.
• Data centre or enterprise networking experience (Cisco).
• Experience with enterprise storage platforms (SAN/NAS) such as NetApp or equivalent.
• Strong scripting/automation skills in at least one of PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible or Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and supporting virtualisation, compute, storage, network and backup infrastructure.
• Delivering customer projects end-to-end from scoping to handover.
• Running internal infra projects to improve platforms, resilience and efficiency.
• Automating build/configuration to avoid repetitive manual work.
• Contributing to DataVita's cloud and HPC platform architecture and build.

Skills

VMware vSphere/ESXi

Hyper-V

Fortinet FortiGate

Cisco switching & routing

Storage NetApp

Scripting & automation

Backup Cohesity

Server hardware mgmt (HPE/Dell/Cisco/↳

Tools

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Grafana

Kibana

Graylog

Prometheus

Nagios

Zabbix

Logstash

Job description

Platform Engineer at DataVita in High Blantyre, SCT, GB

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth. Location: Hamilton International Technology Park. Working Hours: 37 hours per week, 5 days onsite. Reports to: Head of Platform Engineering

About DataVita

DataVita is a next-generation cloud and infrastructure company operating from Tier III-certified data centres in Scotland. We work extensively with AI and automation, integrating these technologies into complex legacy environments to deliver genuine transformation. DataVita is the fastest growing technology company in Scotland, with plans to deploy and invest over £2 billion in the coming years. You would be joining at a relatively early stage of that trajectory. For the right person, this is a chance to build something from the ground up inside a business that is scaling fast.

About the Role

You will be an infrastructure generalist working across a broad range of technologies to deliver both customer and internal projects. One day you might be building out a virtualisation cluster for a customer, the next you could be troubleshooting a storage replication issue, hardening a firewall estate, or automating a build process that currently takes hours. This is a wide role rather than a narrow one. We are looking for someone who enjoys breadth, is comfortable being the person who picks up an unfamiliar technology and works it out, and who wants to keep learning. You will be given the time, support and opportunity to develop into new areas. Alongside business-as-usual project delivery, you will contribute to the design and build of DataVita's next-generation cloud and HPC platform, the infrastructure that will underpin our AI and high-performance computing services for years to come. It is a rare chance to help shape a platform from the ground up rather than inherit someone else's.

About You

The successful candidate will be comfortable with breadth and happy to move between technologies rather than specialise. They will be curious, preferring to understand why something broke rather than just restart it, and pragmatic about automation, automating what's genuinely worth automating rather than automating for its own sake. They will also be a clear communicator, able to explain technical detail to both customers and non-technical colleagues, and capable of working independently on project delivery while knowing when to ask for input.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing, building, and supporting virtualisation, compute, storage, network and backup infrastructure across our data centres
• Delivering customer projects end to end, from scoping and design through to build, migration and handover
• Delivering internal infrastructure projects that improve our platforms, resilience and efficiency
• Automating repetitive build and configuration work rather than doing it by hand twice
• Contributing to the architecture and build of DataVita's future cloud and HPC platform
• Troubleshooting complex, cross-domain issues where the cause could sit anywhere between the switch port and the application
• Producing and maintaining clear documentation and as-built records
• Providing escalation support to colleagues

Essential Experience

• VMware - vSphere/ESXi in production, including cluster build and lifecycle management
• Hyper-V - build, configuration and day-to-day operation
• Fortinet - FortiGate firewalls and wider Fortinet product set
• Cisco - switching and routing in a data centre or enterprise environment
• Storage - NetApp or comparable enterprise storage platforms (SAN/NAS, replication, snapshots)
• Scripting and automation - strong practical ability in at least one of: PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible or Terraform
• Backup - Cohesity or comparable enterprise backup and recovery software
• Server estates - HPE/Dell/Cisco/Lenovo hardware management.
• Observability - hands-on experience across the monitoring stack: Metrics collection (Zabbix, Prometheus, Nagios or similar) Log collection and aggregation (Graylog, Loki, Logstash or similar) Visualisation and dashboarding (Grafana, Kibana or similar)
• Working with technologies you have never seen before - a track record of being handed something unfamiliar and getting to a working result: reading the documentation, building a lab, testing your assumptions and asking the right questions. This is a core part of the job, not a nice-to-have We don't expect you to be an expert in all of the above. What matters is that you're genuinely hands-on across most of it, and comfortable working in a live production environment.

Desirable Experience

• Cisco ACI
• Working with agentic AI tooling (Claude Code, Codex or similar) as part of day-to-day engineering
• OpenStack or other KVM-based hypervisor platforms
• Kubernetes on-premises
• CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows
• GitOps and continuous delivery tooling (Argo CD, Flux or similar)
• GPU and HPC infrastructure, including high-density and liquid-cooled environments

What You'll Get

Career & Growth

Competitive salary

The chance to help shape a growing technical team inside a fast-scaling business

Direct exposure to every area of the company

Training and development throughout your time at DataVita

Benefits

• 33 days annual leave
• Pension: 5% employee, 5% employer
• Life assurance at 4x salary
• Group income protection at 70% of salary for up to 2 years
• Help@Hand: remote GP - physiotherapy, nutritionist, and more
• Cycle to Work and EV car salary sacrifice schemes
• 6 fully expensed company events per year
• Option to donate to charity through salary

Company Overview

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