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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer - **Company:** 100 Percent - **Location:** Urmston, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £55,000.0 - £60,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, VMware ESX Servers, Monitoring of Systems, Hyper-V, Microsoft Office, Windows PowerShell, VMware VSphere, Scripting, Grafana, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Information Technology, Nintex, Veeam, Vmware - **Published:** September 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5871841049 ## About the Role * Strong commercial experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Platform Engineer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer or similar. * Very strong hands-on Veeam Backup & Replication experience, including backup jobs, replication, recovery testing, troubleshooting and platform administration. * Excellent VMware vSphere / ESXi administration experience. * Strong Hyper-V administration experience. * Clear background in on-premises or hybrid infrastructure environments, rather than a purely cloud-based or Azure DevOps-focused role. * Experience supporting highly available production infrastructure. * Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across enterprise infrastructure. * Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana. * Experience automating operational tasks using PowerShell, scripting or similar technologies. * Excellent understanding of backup, disaster recovery and platform resilience. * Ability to coordinate technical workloads and mentor engineers within a collaborative team. * Experience with any of the following would be advantageous but is not essential: Zerto, Cohesity, OpsRamp, Microsoft 365 Backup, workflow automation tools such as n8n, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ITIL environments, Managed Service Provider (MSP) experience, customer onboarding and service transition. ## Description * Build, manage and optimise the Veeam Backup & Replication platform. * Own backup, recovery, replication and disaster recovery processes across the infrastructure estate. * Act as the senior technical escalation point for Veeam, VMware, Hyper-V and wider infrastructure issues. * Lead technical investigations and major incident recovery, particularly around backup, restore and platform availability. * Drive automation to reduce manual processes and improve operational efficiency. * Develop and maintain monitoring, observability and alerting using tools such as Grafana. * Coordinate the day-to-day priorities of the Platform Engineering team. * Maintain engineering standards, documentation and operational procedures. * Support infrastructure upgrades, migrations, platform optimisation and continuous improvement initiatives. * Contribute to the design and implementation of new platform capabilities. * Help deliver highly resilient, reliable infrastructure supporting business-critical services. Technologies: * Azure * Cloud * DevOps * Grafana * Hyper-V * Support * ITIL * Microsoft 365 * n8n * PowerShell * VMware * Veeam * Office 365, We are an established and growing technology business near Cardiff offering a fully remote Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer role with a salary of £60,000 plus bonus and excellent benefits. This is a hands-on infrastructure position focused on platform operations, backup, recovery, virtualisation and resilience, with a strong emphasis on Veeam, VMware and Hyper-V. 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