Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Salary: £55,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Platform Engineer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer or similar.
• Very strong hands-on Veeam Backup & Replication experience, including backup jobs, replication, recovery testing, troubleshooting and platform administration.
• Excellent VMware vSphere / ESXi administration experience.
• Strong Hyper-V administration experience.
• Clear background in on-premises or hybrid infrastructure environments, rather than a purely cloud-based or Azure DevOps-focused role.
• Experience supporting highly available production infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana.
• Experience automating operational tasks using PowerShell, scripting or similar technologies.
• Excellent understanding of backup, disaster recovery and platform resilience.
• Ability to coordinate technical workloads and mentor engineers within a collaborative team.
• Experience with any of the following would be advantageous but is not essential: Zerto, Cohesity, OpsRamp, Microsoft 365 Backup, workflow automation tools such as n8n, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ITIL environments, Managed Service Provider (MSP) experience, customer onboarding and service transition.

Responsibilities:

• Build, manage and optimise the Veeam Backup & Replication platform.
• Own backup, recovery, replication and disaster recovery processes across the infrastructure estate.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for Veeam, VMware, Hyper-V and wider infrastructure issues.
• Lead technical investigations and major incident recovery, particularly around backup, restore and platform availability.
• Drive automation to reduce manual processes and improve operational efficiency.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, observability and alerting using tools such as Grafana.
• Coordinate the day-to-day priorities of the Platform Engineering team.
• Maintain engineering standards, documentation and operational procedures.
• Support infrastructure upgrades, migrations, platform optimisation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of new platform capabilities.
• Help deliver highly resilient, reliable infrastructure supporting business-critical services.

Technologies:

• Azure
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Grafana
• Hyper-V
• Support
• ITIL
• Microsoft 365
• n8n
• PowerShell
• VMware
• Veeam
• Office 365

More:

We are an established and growing technology business near Cardiff offering a fully remote Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer role with a salary of £60,000 plus bonus and excellent benefits. This is a hands-on infrastructure position focused on platform operations, backup, recovery, virtualisation and resilience, with a strong emphasis on Veeam, VMware and Hyper-V. You will join a collaborative engineering team where your expertise will influence how platforms are operated and improved, and where you will help shape engineering standards in a modern technology environment.

last updated 36 week of 2026