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About the Role
The Senior Virtualisation Engineer is responsible for the engineering, implementation, optimisation, and operational support of the organisation's enterprise virtualisation and compute platforms. This role delivers secure, standardised, resilient, and automated virtualisation solutions, translating architectural designs into robust, scalable platform implementations. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to ensure effective design, integration, protection, and operation of virtualisation solutions, embedding security, resilience, and automation by design.
Responsibilities
- Engineer, administer, and support enterprise virtualisation platforms, ensuring infrastructure, tooling, integrations, and configurations are secure, resilient, supportable, automated, and operationally effective.
- Engineer, administer, and support enterprise VMware vSphere environments, including ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, clusters, virtual machines, templates, and associated infrastructure.
- Manage VMware cluster configuration including HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, resource pools, and lifecycle management.
- Maintain virtual infrastructure in accordance with agreed availability, performance, and security standards.
- Manage platform upgrades, patching, and remediation using appropriate lifecycle management tooling.
- Maintain supported and standardised versions of hypervisor, management, and supporting platform components.
- Support VDI built on VSAN.
- Support the physical compute infrastructure underpinning the virtualisation platform.
- Manage server firmware, BIOS, drivers, and hardware compatibility as part of the overall platform lifecycle.
- Work with hardware vendors to diagnose and resolve complex platform issues.
- Ensure infrastructure remains within vendor-supported hardware and software lifecycle requirements.
- Work closely with Storage Engineering teams to ensure reliable integration between VMware and enterprise storage platforms.
- Support FC SAN, NFS, and VMware datastore connectivity where applicable.
- Manage datastore presentation, multipathing, datastore clusters, and capacity.
- Support storage migrations and Storage vMotion activities.
- Troubleshoot complex storage and virtualisation integration issues.
- Support VSAN.
- Manage and troubleshoot virtual networking including VMware Distributed Switches, Standard Switches, VLANs, NIC teaming, and VMkernel networking.
- Work with Network Engineering teams on physical and virtual network connectivity.
- Support networking requirements for management, vMotion, storage, and virtual machine traffic.
- Ensure virtual infrastructure is designed and operated with recoverability and resilience as core requirements.
- Work closely with Backup and Recovery teams to ensure virtual workloads are appropriately protected.
- Support backup platform integrations with VMware environments.
- Ensure appropriate controls around VMware snapshots and their lifecycle.
- Participate in recovery testing and disaster recovery exercises.
- Ensure critical infrastructure configuration is appropriately protected and recoverable.
- Monitor availability, performance, capacity, and health across virtualisation environments.
- Identify resource contention and capacity risks across CPU, memory, storage, and network resources.
- Perform capacity planning and forecasting to support infrastructure growth.
- Develop actionable monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Proactively identify infrastructure risks before they affect production services.
- Develop and maintain automation for repetitive infrastructure administration activities.
- Use technologies such as PowerShell, PowerCLI, REST APIs, and Ansible to automate platform operations.
- Support Infrastructure as Code principles where appropriate.
- Reduce manual configuration and configuration drift through standardisation.
Requirements
- Extensive experience engineering and supporting enterprise-scale virtualisation infrastructure.
- Strong technical expertise in VMware vSphere, Virtual desktop infrastructure, VMware HA and DRS, vMotion and Storage vMotion, VMware Distributed Switches, VMware Lifecycle Manager, VMware Tools and virtual hardware lifecycle, Virtual machine templates and provisioning, Host profiles and configuration standardisation, Fibre Channel, Multipathing, Enterprise networking concepts, Infrastructure monitoring, and Capacity management.
- Strong experience troubleshooting complex problems involving virtualisation, compute, storage, and networking.
- Experience delivering infrastructure changes within controlled enterprise change-management environments.
- Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and infrastructure resilience.
- Experience working within large, business-critical enterprise environments.
- Experience with one or more of: VMware PowerCLI, PowerShell, Ansible, REST APIs, Infrastructure as Code, Git/source control, VMware Aria Operations or equivalent monitoring platforms.
- Demonstrate an ability to identify repeatable operational activities and convert them into standardised and automated processes.
- Experience with technologies such as VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware NSX, VMware Aria Operations, HPE ProLiant, Cisco UCS, Pure Storage, Cohesity, Enterprise Fibre Channel SAN technologies such as Cisco MDS or Brocade, Public cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure.
- Relevant VMware/Broadcom or infrastructure certifications are advantageous.
Skills
- VMware vSphere
- Virtual desktop infrastructure
- VMware HA and DRS
- vMotion
- Storage vMotion
- VMware Distributed Switches
- VMware Lifecycle Manager
- VMware Tools
- Virtual hardware lifecycle
- Virtual machine templates
- Provisioning
- Host profiles
- Configuration standardisation
- Fibre Channel
- Multipathing
- Enterprise networking concepts
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Capacity management
- PowerShell
- PowerCLI
- Ansible
- REST APIs
- Infrastructure as Code
- Git
- Source control
- VMware Aria Operations
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware NSX
- HPE ProLiant
- Cisco UCS
- Pure Storage
- Cohesity
- Cisco MDS
- Brocade
- Microsoft Azure
Experience Level
- Senior