Infrastructure Engineer - Virtualisation - VMWare
Posted 3 days ago by CBS Butler
£390 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Sheffield, UK
Summary: The Infrastructure Engineer (Virtualisation) role is a leadership position within a VMware Engineering POD, focused on driving product vision, automation, reliability, and service sustainability for a large-scale enterprise VMware estate. The position requires extensive experience in managing VMware technologies and leading a team of engineers. The role is hybrid, requiring three days in the office each week, and is offered on a contract basis for over nine months. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining product strategy and overseeing various engineering standards and practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of VMware engineers within a POD structure
- Own people and performance management responsibilities
- Define VMware product strategy focusing on automation, reliability, availability, performance, and scale
- Design, deploy, and manage VMware technologies including vSphere, vRO, vRLI, vROps, and vLCM
- Drive automation initiatives using PowerCLI, Python, Ansible, and vRealize Suite
- Establish and enforce engineering standards and SRE best practices
- Improve service sustainability, transformation, and platform reliability
- Oversee capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity
- Manage major incidents and represent the team on critical calls
- Ensure compliance, CVE management, and adherence to regulatory standards
- Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Applications, Connectivity teams, and vendors
- Manage full hardware and software lifecycle from deployment to decommissioning
Key Skills:
- 15+ years' total IT experience, including 12+ years in distributed systems (Linux, Windows, HA solutions, server hardware, VMware)
- Extensive experience managing VMware products (vSphere, vCenter, vROPS, vRO, vRLI, vLCM) within banking/finance environments
- Strong automation delivery experience across large-scale virtualisation infrastructure
- Deep understanding of network and storage technologies in distributed systems
- Proven leadership and team management capability
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Experience managing full infrastructure lifecycle
Salary (Rate): £390 per day
City: Sheffield
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Infrastructure Engineer (Virtualisation) - VMware POD Lead
Located in Sheffield
9+ month Contract
£360-£390 per day insideIR35
Hybrid - 3 days in the office per week
We are seeking a highly experienced Infrastructure Engineer (Virtualisation) to join the Virtualisation Engineering Team. This is a leadership role within a VMware Engineering POD, responsible for driving product vision, automation, reliability, and service sustainability across a large-scale enterprise VMware estate.
Responsibilities include:
* Lead and mentor a team of VMware engineers within a POD structure
* Own people and performance management responsibilities
* Define VMware product strategy focusing on automation, reliability, availability,
performance, and scale
* Design, deploy, and manage VMware technologies including vSphere, vRO, vRLI, vROps,
and vLCM
* Drive automation initiatives using PowerCLI, Python, Ansible, and vRealize Suite
* Establish and enforce engineering standards and SRE best practices
* Improve service sustainability, transformation, and platform reliability
* Oversee capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity
* Manage major incidents and represent the team on critical calls
* Ensure compliance, CVE management, and adherence to regulatory standards
* Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Applications, Connectivity teams, and
vendors
* Manage full hardware and software lifecycle from deployment to decommissioning
Skills and Experience:
* 15+ years' total IT experience, including 12+ years in distributed systems (Linux,
Windows, HA solutions, server hardware, VMware)
* Extensive experience managing VMware products (vSphere, vCenter, vROPS, vRO, vRLI,
vLCM) within banking/finance environments
* Strong automation delivery experience across large-scale virtualisation
infrastructure
* Deep understanding of network and storage technologies in distributed systems
* Proven leadership and team management capability
* Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
* Experience managing full infrastructure lifecycle
This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity for someone who combines deep VMware technical expertise with automation capability and strong people leadership. Please apply for immediate interview!
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