Platform Virtualisation Engineer (VMware, VSphere, Terraform)
| Posting date: | 09 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 October 2025 |
| Location: | M1 4BT |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 4733039_1760035598 |
Summary
Platform Virtualisation Engineer (VMware, VSphere, Terraform)
£725 a day (Inside IR35)
6 Months
Manchester (Hybrid)
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.
Key Responsibilities:
* 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
What We're Looking For:
* 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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