VMware​/Nutanix Infrastructure Engineer

Job Overview

VMware/Nutanix Infrastructure Engineer (Contract) – based in Surrey. Hybrid role requiring 2–3 days onsite per week. Initial contract 6–12 months, competitive day rate, outside IR35 (to be confirmed).

• Own day‑to‑day administration of VMware and Nutanix environments, ensuring security, resilience and optimal performance.
• Maintain platform health, performance and availability through proactive patching, lifecycle management and firmware upgrades.
• Plan and implement upgrades for VMware, Nutanix, firmware and associated infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and serve as senior technical escalation point.
• Produce and maintain operational and design documentation.
• Collaborate closely with networking, security and broader infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, resilience and business continuity planning.
• Identify automation opportunities to improve operational processes.
• Mentor and upskill internal infrastructure team members.

• Strong commercial experience administering enterprise VMware environments.
• Hands‑on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter.
• Experience supporting Nutanix AHV environments.
• Knowledge of hyper–converged infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with firmware upgrades, lifecycle management and patching.
• Deep understanding of high availability, clustering and disaster recovery.
• Windows Server infrastructure experience.
• Power Shell scripting and automation experience advantageous.
• Excellent troubleshooting, documentation and communication skills.

• Nutanix Prism, VMware vSAN, VMware NSX, Dell VxRail.
• Azure Stack HCI, Azure Infrastructure.
• Veeam or enterprise backup platforms.

• Long‑term contract with potential extension.
• Ownership of a modern enterprise virtualisation platform.
• Opportunity to work on a business‑critical infrastructure environment.
• Collaborative and technically capable team.
• Blended role of BAU support, platform optimisation and infrastructure projects.

If you are a VMware specialist looking for a long‑term contract where you can make a genuine impact while working with modern virtualisation technologies, we would love to hear from you.