Location: Remote – some travel to Hereford
We are seeking an experienced VMware Virtualisation Engineering Lead to drive the strategy, engineering excellence, and operational performance of a large-scale VMware shared platform supporting business-critical services.
This is a senior leadership role combining technical expertise, people management, automation, and SRE best practices to ensure platform reliability, scalability, and performance.
The Role:
As the VMware Engineering Lead, you will:
* Lead and mentor a team of VMware engineers within a team structure
* Manage team performance, development, and delivery outcomes
* Define and drive the VMware product vision and strategy (automation, availability, reliability, scale)
* Design, deploy, and manage VMware technologies including vSphere, vCenter, vRO, vROPS, vRLI, and vRealize Suite
* Oversee day-to-day virtual platform operations, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
* Drive automation initiatives using PowerCLI, Python, Ansible, and vRO workflows
* Implement SRE best practices, monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning
* Lead service sustainability and transformation initiatives
* Ensure compliance, risk mitigation, and lifecycle management (including CVEs and version control)
* Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning
* Represent the team during major incidents and provide technical leadership
* Collaborate closely with Operations, Engineering, Applications, Connectivity teams, and vendors
What We’re Looking For:
* Highly experience working in large-scale distributed systems (Linux, Windows, HA solutions, server hardware, VMware)
* Strong experience managing VMware platforms within banking or financial services environments
* Proven leadership experience managing high-performing engineering teams
* Deep understanding of networking and storage within VMware-based distributed systems
* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
* Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or equivalent experience preferred
If you're a senior VMware leader ready to combine technical depth, automation expertise, and people leadership, we’d love to hear from you.
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