Virtualisation Platform Engineer

Certes; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology services company is seeking an experienced Virtualisation Platform Engineer to join their Manchester team. This role involves building and maintaining infrastructure, collaborating with teams to implement best practices in VMware and DevOps, and ensuring system reliability and performance. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in virtualisation platforms and container orchestration. This position offers competitive compensation on a hybrid working model.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar role is essential.
• Deep knowledge of O/S and networking principles.
• Experience in managing containerized environments required.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain on-prem and cloud infrastructure.
• Manage containerized environments like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance.

Skills

Proven experience as a Virtualisation Platform Engineer

Strong knowledge of On-prem virtualisation platforms

Proficiency with IaC tools and automation scripting

Experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems

Passion for engineering excellence

Tools

VMware Hypervisor

Terraform

Python

Bash

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Job Description

Virtualisation Platform Engineer

Duration : 6 Months

Rate : 685.00 per day

Location : Manchester & Remote (hybrid working)

IR35 Status : Inside

Start ASAP

Role Overview

We require 2 experienced Virtualisation Platform Engineers for our higher education client to join their team within the IT Services will form part of their high performing collaborative technical team working on meaningful and high-impact this role you will be working on cutting-edge infrastructure enable developer productivity and contribute to building scalable secure and efficient systems.

As the Virtualisation Platform Engineer you will play a key role in designing building and maintaining the platforms and tooling that support their infrastructure provisioning and delivery lifecycle.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to automate infrastructure improve observability and implement best practices in VMware Hypervisor and DevOps.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Posses proven experience as a Virtualisation Platform Engineer or a similar role
• Have strong knowledge of On-prem virtualisation platforms and container orchestration
• Proficiency with IaC tools and automation scripting (Bash Python etc.)
• Experience with monitoring alerting and incident response systems
• Passionate for engineering excellence and operational efficiency

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain on-prem and cloud infrastructure (e.g. VMware Hypervisor vSphere OpenStack AWS GCP Azure)
• Deep Knowledge of O / S and networking principles is key for this role (Window Linux Firewalls & Load Balancers (Palo Alto F5)
• Manage containerised environments (e.g. Kubernetes Docker)
• Develop and optimise CI / CD pipelines
• Ensure system reliability scalability and performance
• Implement (IaC) Infrastructure-as-Code in terms Terraform and scripting etc.
• Champion DevOps / SRE principles across teams

To apply for this role please email your CV to Joanne Stanley :

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1