VMware & Windows Infra Engineer — DR & Hybrid Cloud

System Recruitment Specialists; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

System Recruitment Specialists seeks a seasoned VMware/Windows Infrastructure Specialist to manage enterprise infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. The role focuses on VMware vSphere, Windows Server, storage, DR, and cloud migrations, with automation and AI-assisted tooling to improve resilience and efficiency.

The candidate will own DR capabilities, ensure high availability, and work in a hybrid setup with on-call duties as required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure roles.
• Strong VMware vSphere/ESXi expertise.
• Experience with Windows Server 2019-2025 and Entra ID.
• Proven disaster recovery design and testing experience.
• Ability to automate using scripting and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Support, maintain, and optimize corporate infrastructure across global environments.
• Act as escalation point for complex infrastructure issues.
• Design and implement highly available server and storage solutions.
• Build and support VMware hosts, VMs, and storage platforms.
• Administer Windows Server environments (Active Directory, Entra ID, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Exchange, M365).
• Design, implement, and maintain disaster recovery solutions with replication, failover, testing, and recovery planning.
• Create DR runbooks and ensure RTO/RPO objectives are achieved.
• Plan and execute cloud migration projects to AWS and Azure.
• Manage and support hybrid cloud environments across on-premises and public cloud.
• Configure monitoring, alerting, backup, and recovery solutions.
• Automate routine tasks using PowerShell and Python; adopt IaC approaches.
• Leverage AI-assisted coding/automation tools to improve efficiency.
• Perform capacity planning and life cycle management.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, vendors, and support teams to resolve issues.
• Participate in on-call rota for out-of-hours changes.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Windows Server

Storage management

Disaster recovery

Cloud technologies

Automation

PowerShell

Python

IaC (Ansible/DSC/Chef/Puppet)

AI-assisted tooling

Citrix

SQL Server HA

Veeam

Rubrik

Zerto

Monitoring (SolarWinds)

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Ansible

DSC

Chef

Puppet

Veeam

Rubrik

Zerto

Job description

System Recruitment Specialists seeks a seasoned VMware/Windows Infrastructure Specialist to manage enterprise infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. The role focuses on VMware vSphere, Windows Server, storage, DR, and cloud migrations, with automation and AI-assisted tooling to improve resilience and efficiency.

The candidate will own DR capabilities, ensure high availability, and work in a hybrid setup with on-call duties as required.