Remote Infrastructure Engineer (Virtualisation) - Contract
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Job description
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer (Virtualisation) to join a leading financial services organisation on a contract basis. You will design, build, and support enterprise virtualisation platforms across on-premises and hybrid environments, ensuring stability, performance, and regulatory compliance.
This role is key to maintaining secure, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure, enabling application and platform teams to deliver change safely.
Responsibilities
Virtualisation Platform Engineering & Operations
Build, operate, and maintain enterprise virtualisation platforms (VMware vSphere/ESXi, Hyper-V).
Provide day 2 operational support: monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity optimisation.
Execute patching, upgrades, firmware updates, and hardware lifecycle activities.
Ensure high availability, clustering, failover, and recovery mechanisms.
Platform Lifecycle & Capacity Management
Own platform lifecycle processes: build standards, upgrades, decommissioning, technical refreshes.
Conduct capacity planning and forecasting to meet business demand.
Identify and remediate single points of failure; support disaster recovery testing.
Automation & Standardisation
Develop and maintain automation for provisioning and configuration (scripting/Infrastructure as Code).
Standardise virtualisation builds, templates, and configurations.
Support integration with cloud and container platforms in hybrid delivery models.
Incident, Problem & Change Management
Act as escalation point for complex incidents.
Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive actions.
Support controlled change execution following ITIL processes.
Security, Risk & Compliance
Ensure platforms meet security standards, hardening guidelines, and regulatory requirements.
Support audits with documentation and operational evidence.
Manage vulnerabilities, configuration drift, and access controls.
Collaboration & Documentation
Work closely with storage, network, OS, cloud, and application teams.
Provide technical input for designs and onboarding.
Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
Requirements
Essential:
Experience with enterprise virtualisation (VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter or equivalent).
Proven infrastructure engineering or platform operations experience in enterprise environments.
Hands-on with upgrades, patching, performance tuning, troubleshooting.
Knowledge of server hardware, storage, and networking related to virtualisation.
ITIL-aligned operational experience.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
Desirable:
Experience in financial services or regulated industries.
Scripting/automation experience (PowerShell, Python) and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Knowledge of hybrid integration between virtualisation, cloud, and containers.
Disaster recovery/business continuity experience.
Personal Attributes:
Ownership and accountability for platform stability.
Ability to work in global, multi-disciplinary teams.
Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Proactive, focused on continuous improvement and risk reduction.