Job Specifications
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.
About the Company
NineTech is a cutting-edge tech recruitment firm founded by close friends Jack and Louis. With a decade of industry experience, Jack and Louis provide end-to-end solutions for technical businesses across various functions, specialising in Sales, Engineering, Infrastructure, Digital and Product. Committed to giving back, NineTech aims to create positive change in the Manchester community and the wider industry.
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