Vmware Consultant
Posted 3 days ago by NineTech
£90 Per hour
Inside
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Infrastructure Engineer role focuses on leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to develop a next-generation infrastructure platform as part of a multi-year transformation program. The position involves designing, testing, integrating, and deploying VCF in both greenfield and brownfield environments, collaborating with various teams and partners. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in VMware technologies and a strong background in infrastructure engineering. This contract position is classified as inside IR35 and offers a competitive daily rate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and engineer enterprise-scale virtualisation platforms using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
- Lead the evaluation, certification, benchmarking, and integration of VCF into existing environments and new deployments.
- Produce clear integration and migration plans, including risk assessments, scalability considerations, and operational readiness.
- Work closely with infrastructure, security, operations, and vendor teams to deliver highly available, compliant, and resilient platforms.
- Embed Infrastructure as Code and automation principles, using tools such as Ansible and Python.
- Drive operational excellence, including platform hardening, performance optimisation, and security compliance.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale VMware virtualisation platforms with hands-on VCF exposure.
- Deep technical expertise in VMware ESXi, vSphere, vSAN, and associated components.
- Experience contributing to or delivering a multi-year VMware Cloud Foundation rollout.
- Proven ability in capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, and integrating complex, multi-vendor platforms.
- Solid foundations across Linux, networking, storage, and enterprise hardware.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into clear technical designs and documentation.
Salary (Rate): £650.00/day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Infrastructure Engineer – VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Type: Contract - 6 Month INSIDE OF IR35 - £650 PER DAY
About the Role
We’re expanding our global Virtualisation Engineering team and are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with strong VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) experience to help shape our next-generation infrastructure platform. This role sits at the heart of a multi-year transformation programme, where we’re building a scalable, automated, and resilient VMware-based virtualisation stack. Working alongside internal teams, strategic partners, and expert consultants, you’ll be heavily involved in designing, testing, integrating, and deploying VCF across large-scale greenfield and brownfield on-prem environments.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design and engineer enterprise-scale virtualisation platforms using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), covering compute, storage, networking, and security.
- Lead the evaluation, certification, benchmarking, and integration of VCF into existing environments and new deployments.
- Produce clear integration and migration plans, including risk assessments, scalability considerations, and operational readiness.
- Work closely with infrastructure, security, operations, and vendor teams to deliver highly available, compliant, and resilient platforms.
- Embed Infrastructure as Code and automation principles, using tools such as Ansible and Python, and integrating with configuration management systems.
- Drive operational excellence, including platform hardening, performance optimisation, and security compliance.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong experience designing and delivering large-scale VMware virtualisation platforms, with hands-on VCF exposure in both greenfield and brownfield environments.
- Deep technical expertise in VMware ESXi, vSphere, vSAN, and associated components (design, build, troubleshooting, tuning).
- Experience contributing to or delivering a multi-year VMware Cloud Foundation rollout.
- Proven ability in capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, and integrating complex, multi-vendor platforms.
- Solid foundations across Linux, networking, storage, and enterprise hardware.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into clear technical designs and documentation.