Lab Engineer (DC Infrastructure testing)

Detailed Description From Employer:

Lab Engineer (Infrastructure testing) | West Yorkshire (4 days on site, 1 day remote) | 6 month contract (initially) | Data center

We're looking for an experienced Lab Engineer to support a large-scale enterprise testing environment based within a data centre setting in West Yorkshire.

This role sits within a dedicated lab function responsible for pre-production validation, solution testing, and technical assurance before enterprise rollout. It's a technically deep position suited to someone who understands enterprise infrastructure end-to-end

You'll be responsible for:

• Operating and maintaining a large enterprise lab environment
• Translating infrastructure requirements into structured test builds
• Designing and executing pre-production test scenarios
• Validating firewall, switching, storage and virtualisation configurations
• Supporting enterprise-level compute, storage and network environments
• Troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues
• Managing workflows and documentation via JIRA
• Collaborating with network, security and infrastructure teams

Essential Experience

• Strong VMware experience (enterprise virtualisation environments)
• Deep knowledge of Firewall technologies
• Experience working with Juniper networking environments
• Hands-on experience with enterprise switches
• Block storage and enterprise storage technologies
• Compute virtualisation in large-scale environments
• Experience working within enterprise-level organisations
• Strong troubleshooting and technical validation capability
• Experience using JIRA

Candidates will be required to go through background checks before commencing contract.

Must be eligible to live and work in the specified work location . Some occasional travel maybe required. Only successful candidates will be contacted.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Our client is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified.

If this sounds like a good fit, apply now!

Lab Engineer (Infrastructure testing) | West Yorkshire (4 days on site, 1 day remote) | 6 month contract (initially) | Data center

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