Platform Engineer - Site Resilience

An experienced Platform Engineer is required to support and enhance a large-scale on-premise compute and storage platform, delivering resilience, performance and efficiency improvements across critical infrastructure services. This role sits within the Site Resilience domain, working as part of a collaborative, multi-functional and agile team responsible for core platform services., * Support and enhance virtualisation and storage platforms, ensuring availability, performance and resilience

• Contribute to the planning and adoption of NVMe storage technologies
• Improve platform engineering practices for VMware vMotion and workload mobility
• Enhance and expand the Commvault backup service, ensuring full platform coverage
• Strengthen disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities
• Collaborate with product and engineering colleagues to shape the platform roadmap and backlog
• Design, plan and deploy new infrastructure solutions (eg NSX, vRealize, Nutanix, SAN migrations)
• Monitor platform health, capacity and performance using modern observability tools
• Maintain documentation, designs and operational procedures
• Support live incidents, DR events and out-of-hours activities where required

• Strong experience with VMware 6/7/8 multi-site environments
• Hands-on knowledge of Cisco UCS, NSX and Fibre Channel fabrics (Brocade)
• Proven experience with disaster recovery planning and execution
• Solid understanding of data centre best practices
• Windows and RHEL operating systems
• Infrastructure as Code and automation (Ansible, PowerShell/PowerCLI, Bash, Python)
• Platform monitoring and observability, including Grafana
• Agile and DevOps ways of working

Desirable

• VMware, Nutanix or NetApp certifications
• Experience with Commvault, vRA, MetroCluster or Nutanix platforms
• Security architecture and hybrid/cloud exposure

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