Platform Virtualisation Engineer (VMware, VSphere, Terraform)
JOB_53488764733039Job type
ContractLocation
ManchesterWorking Pattern
Full-timeSpecialism
InfrastructureIndustry
Education & TrainingPay
725
Virtualisation, VMWare, Terraform, Vsphere
Platform Virtualisation Engineer (VMware, VSphere, Terraform)
£725 a day (Inside IR35)
6 Months
Manchester (Hybrid)
We're currently seeking an experienced contract Platform Virtualisation Engineer on a 6 month initial contract. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on cutting-edge infrastructure, enable developer productivity, and contribute to building scalable, secure, and efficient systems.
As a Virtualisation Platform Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the platforms and tooling that support our infrastructure provisioning and delivery lifecycle. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to automate infrastructure, improve observability, and implement best practices in VMware Hypervisor & DevOps.
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 (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
What We’re Looking For:
• Proven experience as a Virtualisation Platform Engineer, or similar role
• 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
£725 a day (Inside IR35)
6 Months
Manchester (Hybrid)
We're currently seeking an experienced contract Platform Virtualisation Engineer on a 6 month initial contract. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on cutting-edge infrastructure, enable developer productivity, and contribute to building scalable, secure, and efficient systems.
As a Virtualisation Platform Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the platforms and tooling that support our infrastructure provisioning and delivery lifecycle. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to automate infrastructure, improve observability, and implement best practices in VMware Hypervisor & DevOps.
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 (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
What We’re Looking For:
• Proven experience as a Virtualisation Platform Engineer, or similar role
• 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
Platform Virtualisation Engineer (VMware, VSphere, Terraform)JOB_534887647330392025-10-092026-01-07
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