Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist; VMware

Job Title

Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist (VMware)

£48,987 - £54,430

Manchester or Leeds

Full time (Please note that participation in an on‑call rota is also a requirement of this role)

Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office location

Sunday 06 September 2026

Hybrid Working, Job Share

We’re modernising with cloud: a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers, and easy, modern and green for developers.

We’re looking for Infrastructure Specialists to join our Private Cloud Platform team, specialising in VMware technologies with a particular focus on VMware Cloud Foundation. This is a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team driving our technology modernisation agenda and helping us become the biggest Fin Tech in the UK. The role is firmly focused on automation-first platform engineering, shaping how infrastructure platforms, including VMware Cloud Foundation and Dell hardware, are built, deployed and operated through infrastructure-as-code.

You’ll help reduce manual intervention and enable safe, repeatable change ’re looking for hands‑on Infrastructure Specialists to help deliver the next generation of compute hosting platforms across our Private Cloud ecosystem. You’ll design, build, operate and continuously improve services running on VMware and Bare Metal platforms. Using platform engineering and infrastructure‑as‑code principles, you’ll drive automation, resilience, security and operational excellence across the platform lifecycle.

As a technical authority, you’ll provide expert guidance while working with internal teams, partners and vendors to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure solutions.

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

• Proven experience as an Infrastructure or Platform Engineer working in a private cloud environment, with infrastructure expertise.
• Experience with compute infrastructure technologies, including one or more of the following: VMware vSpehere or Cloud Foundation, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite, Dell Server Hardware.
• Experience designing and operating platforms using automation and infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Source Code Management (Git / Git Hub).
• Understanding of security, compliance and resilience in enterprise environments.
• Experience supporting production platforms with high availability and performance requirements.
• You’ll should be able to demonstrate experience in:
  Supporting and managing enterprise infrastructure platforms.
• Agile ways of working.
• Designing or contributing to Hybrid Private Cloud solutions.
• Backup, restore and disaster recovery processes.
• Performance tuning and optimisation.
• Incident, problem and defect management (Level 3 /
  4).
• Secure configuration and compliance with enterprise standards.
• Analytical, problem‑solving and communication skills.
• Cisco ACI Networks.
• SAN Storage.
• Observability and monitoring tooling (e.g. Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience modernising legacy platforms.
• Scripting and automation (e.g. Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform).
• Experience working with regulated or financial services environments.
• Azure VMware Solution.
• Certifications in VMware technologies.
• Experience contributing to platform standards, patterns or internal engineering communities.
• Experience working closely with product owners and architecture teams.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we…