Virtualisation Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong VMware experience across vSphere, ESXi and vCenter.
• Proven experience with VMware Cloud Foundation and SDDC technologies.
• Strong automation and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI or similar.
• Knowledge of enterprise networking and services including DNS and load balancing.
• Experience integrating platforms with DevOps and CI/CD toolchains.
• Experience working in secure or regulated environments.
• Strong technical documentation, troubleshooting and communication skills.
• Kubernetes / VKS experience is desirable.
• Experience in hybrid cloud and multi-platform environments is desirable.
• GitOps and IaC best practices experience is desirable.
• Backup, disaster recovery and resilience experience is desirable.
• Agile delivery / Atlassian tools experience is desirable.
• VMware certifications such as VCP, VCAP or VCF Specialist are desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver hands-on engineering support to the OpNET programme.
• Design, build, automate and support VMware Cloud Foundation platforms.
• Design, deploy and manage VMware Cloud Foundation platforms.
• Implement and support vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, NSX, vSAN, VCF Operations, VPC and VKS.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and API-driven automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI or SaltStack.
• Support platform lifecycle activities including builds, upgrades, patching, scaling and operational handover.
• Integrate virtualisation platforms with enterprise networking, DNS, identity and DevOps/CI/CD services.
• Translate architecture designs into secure, automated and deployable solutions.
• Produce low-level designs, build guides and operational runbooks.
• Support integration, testing, troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
• Ensure solutions follow secure-by-design, hardening and organisational security standards.

Technologies:

• API
• Ansible
• Atlassian
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GitOps
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Load Balancing
• Security
• Terraform
• VMware

More:

We are seeking an experienced VMware VCF / Virtualisation Engineer to work out of Corsham on a DV Cleared role, supporting the OpNET programme. This is an inside IR35 contract paying £600 to £675 per day, initially for 7 months with the potential to become long term. We offer the opportunity to work on enterprise virtualisation and software-defined infrastructure within a secure and regulated environment.

last updated 33 week of 2026