Job Vacancy Platform Engineer - Inside IR35

We have an urgent requirement for a Platform Virtualisation Engineer on an initial 6 month contract working inside IR35.

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 containerized 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
* A passion for engineering excellence and operational efficiency


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