Virtualisation Platform Engineer

Job Description

Virtualisation Platform Engineer

Duration : 6 Months

Rate : 685.00 per day

Location :
Manchester & Remote (hybrid working)

IR35 Status :
Inside

Start ASAP

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 Dev Ops.

• 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

• Build and maintain on-prem and cloud infrastructure (e.g. VMware Hypervisor vSphere Open Stack 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 Dev Ops / SRE principles across teams

To apply for this role  to Joanne Stanley :

Employment Type :
Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1