Senior IT Platform Engineer – 70K

Ascent People Ltd; West Midlands Combined Authority; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic IT company is seeking a Senior IT Platform Engineer to join their infrastructure team. This role emphasizes virtualization expertise, especially with VMWare, and involves responsibility for managing storage platforms and driving automation initiatives. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits including a car scheme and gym memberships, along with opportunities for career growth in an evolving IT environment.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Pension

Bonus

Car scheme

Gym

Free parking

Onsite canteen

Qualifications

• Primary focus on VMWare and virtualization skills.
• Experience with data management and capacity planning.
• Strong team player with flexibility and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Oversee VMware, storage platforms, and associated infrastructure.
• Engage in capacity planning and data management.
• Drive automation initiatives and DevOps practices.

Skills

VMWare

Virtualisation

Datacentre

HPE/Pure

DevOps

Kubernetes

Automation

Tools

Windows Server

Linux

Backup systems

AD

Networking

OpenStack

GIT

ITIL

Job description

Senior IT Platform Engineer – 70K

Location:

West Midlands

Industry:

IT

Salary:

£60000 - £70000 per annum + 25 days holiday, Pension, Bonus

Posted:

08/11/2024

Description

Senior IT Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, HPE/Pure, Storage VMWare, VCAP/VCIX, DevOps, Kubernetes, Automation, Windows Server, Linux, Datacentre, Infrastructure Specialist, Security – up to 70K

Exciting industry, Exciting Tech, Exciting package, Exciting Team-Are you a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who has specialised in Virtualisation/VMware and Compute? Do you desire a more DevOps approach to your role? Can you embrace automation? If so, we have a role that will kick all others into touch.

Role: As a Senior Platform, Infrastructure Engineer you will work in a dynamic infrastructure team and have responsibility for the current VMware, storage platforms, cloud, and associated underlying infrastructure hardware. Backup is also your domain including data management – the availability, structure, and analysis of data. You will also do capacity planning as well as technical & functional specification writing whilst working alongside project managers and other SME’s.

Alongside the above, we are looking for an engineer who also has some DevOps experience, and/or is keen to embrace it. Doesn’t shy away from automation.

This is a role where you will be the person who takes this area of IT to the next level, you will be the idea’s person, you will drive this forward.

Contact me on 0-7-7-9-1-6-1-5-7-0-3 to obtain client spec and detail.

As the Senior Infrastructure Engineer:

* Primary skills required: VMWare, Virtualisation, Datacentre, Enterprise SAN Storage platforms, HPE/Pure
* Secondary skills: Windows Server, Linux, Backup systems, AD, Networking, OpenStack, GIT, ITIL
* Additional – DevOps, Kubernetes, Automation, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, containerisation

Such an exciting time to join this client as they embark on a new era. They have recently gone through a restructure within IT and are looking to add some key personnel to have domain responsibility.

This is predominantly an office-based role with some flex around homeworking. It’s not your average IT role and should be looked at as a career changer, not just a job. It’s an industry where you buy into the overall objective of the organization to get the best out of it. For the Infrastructure Engineer / Infrastructure Architect who has a competitive streak in them, there is no better place to work. Ownership and accountability must be something you see as your strengths as well as flexibility and being a strong team player.

Salary & Benefits: 60-70K, Bonus, Car scheme, Gym, Pension, Free parking and onsite canteen.

Candidates of all ages and backgrounds will be considered for this role. Ascent People are acting as an Employment Agency in respect of this role.

Jo Bevington

Recruiter:

Jo Bevington

Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail] My Social