Location and Contract Details
Location: Hybrid - 60% office 40% remote - Sheffield
Duration: 30/11/2026
Rate to SSC: £540
MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA
Responsibilities
Virtualization Engineer will design, implement, and manage virtualization technologies and environments to optimize IT infrastructure and resource utilization. This role involves configuring and maintaining virtual machines, managing hypervisors, and ensuring the efficient operation of virtualised environments.
* Design, deploy, and manage virtualization solutions, including virtual machines and hypervisors.
* Monitor and optimise the performance of virtualised environments to ensure high availability and efficiency.
* Implement and maintain virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper‑V, KVM, Nutanix, OpenShift).
* Build/rebuild new VMware ESX cluster environments using automation solutions to meet global business requirements.
* Quickly learn and implement VMware technology products and solutions, applying these skills rapidly and effectively using automation techniques.
* Plan and implement ESX hardware evergreen activities on complex VMware environments, including vendor management and coordination with data centre teams.
* Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to virtualization infrastructure, including performance and connectivity problems.
* Develop and implement backup, disaster recovery, and security strategies for virtual environments.
* Collaborate with IT teams to integrate virtualization solutions with existing systems and applications.
* Stay updated with virtualization technologies, best practices, and industry trends.
* Possess good knowledge of change‑management practices and ability to raise quality changes.
Education Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Technical Skills
* Solution design, performance tuning and implementing disaster recovery solutions.
* Deep expertise in core virtualization platforms and storage solutions.
* Proficiency with virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware, Hyper‑V) and related tools.
* Deploy, configure and manage VMware, vSphere/vCenter, Hyper‑V and HCI platforms.
* Strong understanding of storage and virtual networking concepts.
* Experience with scripting and automation for managing virtual environment tasks using Python, PowerShell and automation tools such as Ansible.
* VMware PowerCLI experience.
* Configuring HA & DRS clusters.
* HA/Failover configuration and troubleshooting.
* RDM management (including clustered VM guests).
* Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise virtualised environments for performance, capacity and resource efficiency.
* Experience migrating VMs between multiple storage arrays.
* Work in coordination with the hardware and storage team to diagnose causes and assist in resolving issues.
Certifications
* VCP Certified – industry‑standard certification in VMware.
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