Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Designs, builds, and deploys hybrid cloud infrastructure centred on VMware (vSphere, NSX-T, vSAN) and supports on-premise to cloud migrations. Requires active SC clearance; onsite in Earlswood, Redhill.

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:
  • Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure design, build, and deployment
  • Enterprise VMware experience, including vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter
  • Experience with NSX or NSX-T
  • Experience supporting on-premise to cloud migration
  • Experience with hybrid cloud infrastructure
  • Experience in infrastructure architecture and implementation
  • Experience with cloud platform integration and transformation
  • Active SC clearance required
  • Experience with vSAN, HCX, or VMware Aria would be advantageous
Responsibilities:
  • Take ownership of the design, build, and deployment of cloud infrastructure
  • Support a significant on-premise to cloud migration programme
  • Work on hybrid cloud infrastructure within a major defence project
  • Contribute to infrastructure architecture and implementation
  • Help deliver cloud platform integration and transformation
  • Design and build complex environments rather than only maintaining BAU infrastructure
Technologies:
  • Cloud
  • Support
  • VMware
  • DevOps

More:

We are a leading UK defence company working on a major submarine project. This is a senior contract role based in Reading with a hybrid working model of two days per week onsite. The assignment is a six-month rolling contract and is inside IR35, with a rate of up to £650 per day. You will join a high-profile programme delivering a complex infrastructure transformation supporting a strategically important submarine capability.

last updated 34 week of 2026

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