VMWare/Nutanix Infrastructure Engineer

This is an excellent opportunity for a VMware specialist with Nutanix experience to join a highly skilled infrastructure team and play a key role in maintaining, optimising and evolving a business-critical platform. The Role

You'll be responsible for the day-to-day ownership of the VMware and Nutanix environments, ensuring they remain secure, resilient and performing at their best. Alongside platform administration, you'll provide technical leadership, produce high-quality documentation and support the wider infrastructure team through knowledge sharing and best practice., * Take ownership of the VMware and Nutanix infrastructure.

• Maintain platform health, performance and availability.
• Plan and implement VMware, Nutanix, firmware and infrastructure upgrades.
• Perform patching, lifecycle management and proactive maintenance.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and act as the senior technical escalation point.
• Produce and maintain both operational and design documentation.
• Work closely with infrastructure, networking and security teams.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, resilience and business continuity planning.
• Identify opportunities to automate and improve operational processes.
• Mentor and upskill members of the internal infrastructure team., * Opportunity to take ownership of a modern enterprise virtualisation platform.
• Work on a business-critical infrastructure environment.
• Collaborative and technically capable team.
• A varied role with a blend of BAU support, platform optimisation and infrastructure project work.

If you're a VMware specialist looking for a long-term contract where you can make a genuine impact while working with modern virtualisation technologies, we'd love to hear from you. Skills

• Infrastructure
• Server
• VMWare
• Azure
• Nutanix

We're particularly interested in candidates with:

• Strong commercial experience administering enterprise VMware environments.
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter.
• Experience supporting Nutanix AHV environments.
• Knowledge of hyper-converged infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with firmware upgrades, lifecycle management and patching.
• Strong understanding of high availability, clustering and disaster recovery.
• Windows Server infrastructure experience.
• PowerShell scripting and automation experience would be advantageous.
• Excellent troubleshooting, documentation and communication skills.