Senior Platform Engineer

NTech; West Midlands; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

NTech is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to lead design, delivery and transformation of modern datacentre and hybrid cloud environments. The role combines technical leadership with hands-on architecture across HCI, VMware, Hyper-V, Kubernetes and cloud platforms.

You will implement IaC using Terraform, Bicep and Ansible, drive automation, governance and mentoring across teams, and contribute to major infrastructure transformation programmes.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in designing and delivering datacentre and cloud architectures.
• Proven ability to lead technical solutions and provide governance across large infrastructure programmes.
• Strong emphasis on security, automation and infrastructure as code practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions.
• Lead the development and operation of VMware, Hyper-V and KVM virtualisation platforms.
• Design and develop Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep and Ansible.
• Drive automation, orchestration and workload optimisation.
• Design compute, storage and software-defined networking solutions.
• Support Kubernetes, AKS and container platforms.
• Produce High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs).
• Provide technical leadership, governance and mentoring.
• Contribute to major infrastructure transformation programmes and customer solutions.

Skills

HCI

VMware vSphere/vSAN

Hyper-V

KVM

Azure & hybrid cloud

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

Bicep

Kubernetes

AKS

Automation

Zero Trust

Datacentre design

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Bicep

PowerShell

Python

Kubernetes

AKS

Job description

Location: Remote working, with occasional travel to West Midlands area

Must be eligible for SC Clearance

NTech is working with a leading infrastructure services organisation looking to appoint an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to support the design, delivery and transformation of modern datacentre and hybrid cloud environments.

This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong infrastructure professional to take a senior role across enterprise platforms, providing technical leadership and delivering innovative infrastructure solutions.

• Design and deliver Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions.
• Lead the development and operation of VMware, Hyper-V and KVM virtualisation platforms.
• Design and develop Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep and Ansible.
• Drive automation, orchestration and workload optimisation.
• Design compute, storage and software-defined networking solutions.
• Support Kubernetes, AKS and container platforms.
• Produce High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs).
• Provide technical leadership, governance and mentoring.
• Contribute to major infrastructure transformation programmes and customer solutions.

We're looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer with strong platform engineering and technical architecture capabilities, including:

• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI).
• VMware vSphere and vSAN.
• Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM/Linux virtualisation.
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
• Compute, storage, SAN and NAS technologies.
• PowerShell, Python and infrastructure automation.
• Terraform, Bicep and Ansible.
• Kubernetes, AKS and container technologies.
• Infrastructure security and Zero Trust principles.
• Datacentre design, hosting environments and technical design governance.

The Opportunity

Join an organisation investing in modern infrastructure, cloud transformation and next-generation platform technologies, where you'll have the opportunity to influence technical direction and deliver enterprise-scale solutions.