At a Glance
- Tasks: Own and optimise cloud platforms, drive automation, and solve complex technical challenges.
- Company: Established tech business near Cardiff with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Hybrid working, annual bonus, excellent benefits, and ongoing professional development.
- Other info: Collaborative team environment with high levels of technical ownership.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping platform strategy and engineering standards.
- Qualifications: Strong experience in cloud infrastructure, VMware, and automation skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
- Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (VMware)
- Near Cardiff (Hybrid Working)
- £60,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Own the Platform. Drive Automation. Shape the Future.
Are you an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer looking for a role where you can genuinely influence technical direction rather than simply maintain existing systems?
We're working with an established and growing technology business near Cardiff that is investing in its infrastructure and platform services. As a
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer , you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, resilience and performance of critical business platforms while driving automation, improving operational efficiency and helping shape engineering best practice.
This is a hands-on technical position with plenty of autonomy, giving you the opportunity to lead by example, solve complex technical challenges and influence how the platform evolves.
- What You'll Be Doing
- As a
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer , you'll
- Take ownership of the operational health, availability and performance of the 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 the 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.
What We're Looking For
Essential
- Strong commercial experience as a
Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer or similar .
- Excellent VMware v Sphere / 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 Power Shell, 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.
Desirable
- Experience with any of the following would be advantageous but is not essential :
- Zerto
- Cohesity
- Ops Ramp
- Microsoft 365 Backup
- Workflow automation tools such as n8n
- Infrastructure as Code (Ia C)
- ITIL environments
- Managed Service Provider (MSP) experience
- Customer onboarding and service transition
Why Join?
You'll be joining a collaborative engineering team where your technical expertise will genuinely influence how platforms are operated and improved.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, driving automation, improving reliability and helping shape engineering standards within a modern technology environment.
Benefits
- Hybrid working
- Annual bonus
- Excellent benefits package
- Modern technology environment
- High levels of technical ownership
- Opportunities to influence platform strategy and engineering best practice
- Ongoing professional development
- If you're an experienced a
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer looking for your next challenge and want to work in an environment where your ideas and technical expertise will make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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