Infrastructure Engineer - Virtualisation - VMWare

Infrastructure Engineer (Virtualisation) - VMware POD Lead

Located in Sheffield

9+ month Contract

£360-£390 per day inside IR35

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.

• 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 Power
  
  CLI, 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

• 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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