Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer VMware

Salary: £60,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial experience as a Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer or in a similar role.
• Excellent VMware vSphere / ESXi administration experience.
• Strong Hyper-V experience.
• Hands-on experience with Veeam Backup & Replication.
• 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 Zerto, Cohesity, OpsRamp, Microsoft 365 Backup, workflow automation tools such as n8n, Infrastructure as Code, ITIL environments, Managed Service Provider environments, or customer onboarding and service transition is advantageous but not essential.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the operational health, availability and performance of our platform estate.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex platform and infrastructure issues.
• Lead technical investigations and major incident recovery.
• 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 our 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:

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

More:

We are an established and growing technology business near Cardiff offering hybrid working, a £60,000 salary, bonus and an excellent benefits package. You will join a collaborative engineering team in a modern technology environment with high levels of technical ownership, ongoing professional development, and the opportunity to influence platform strategy, engineering best practice and the future direction of our infrastructure services.

last updated 30 week of 2026