Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Compute / VMware) | Financial Services
Posted Today by TDA
£550 Per day
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Compute / VMware) focuses on supporting mission-critical financial systems by designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise compute environments. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience, particularly within financial institutions or regulated sectors, and will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, performance, and resilience of critical infrastructure. This position offers the opportunity to work in a high-performing team and provide technical leadership to junior engineers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and optimise high-performance compute environments
- Ensure scalability, resilience and maximum uptime of mission-critical systems
- Lead performance tuning, resource optimisation and capacity planning initiatives
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues with minimal disruption
- Integrate strong security controls to protect sensitive financial data
- Collaborate closely with network, storage, system administration and development teams
- Manage vendor relationships and ensure certification/compliance standards are met
- Drive cost-effective infrastructure solutions aligned with business growth
- Provide mentorship and technical leadership to junior engineers
Key Skills:
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise compute environments
- Strong knowledge of VMware vCenter, HPE OneView, HP iLO
- Experience with Microsoft 365, PowerShell & PowerCLI
- Working knowledge of Active Directory
- Strong understanding of networking and storage integration
- Experience within financial services or other regulated environments
Salary (Rate): £550 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Are you a highly experienced Compute Engineer looking to play a pivotal role in supporting mission-critical financial systems? We’re seeking a seasoned professional with 10+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and optimising enterprise compute environments — ideally within financial institutions or other highly regulated sectors. This is an opportunity to join a high-performing team responsible for the scalability, performance, and resilience of critical infrastructure that underpins core financial applications.
Rate c.£500 - £550pd Duration - 6 months rolling (Long term) Location - London (2-3 days in office)
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design, implement and optimise high-performance compute environments
- Ensure scalability, resilience and maximum uptime of mission-critical systems
- Lead performance tuning, resource optimisation and capacity planning initiatives
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues with minimal disruption
- Integrate strong security controls to protect sensitive financial data
- Collaborate closely with network, storage, system administration and development teams
- Manage vendor relationships and ensure certification/compliance standards are met
- Drive cost-effective infrastructure solutions aligned with business growth
- Provide mentorship and technical leadership to junior engineers
Key Technologies & Experience
- VMware vCenter
- HPE OneView
- HP iLO
- Microsoft 365
- PowerShell & PowerCLI
- Active Directory (working knowledge)
- Strong understanding of networking and storage integration
- Experience within financial services or other regulated environments highly desirable
If you’re passionate about building robust, scalable infrastructure in a high-impact financial environment, we’d love to hear from you