Platform Virtualisation Engineer (VMware, VSphere, Terraform)

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., 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

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

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