At a Glance
- Tasks: Design, build, and support enterprise virtualisation platforms in a hybrid environment.
- Company: Join a leading financial services organisation with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, flexible hybrid work, and potential for long-term contract.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for continuous improvement and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by ensuring secure and resilient infrastructure for critical applications.
- Qualifications: Experience with VMware or equivalent, strong troubleshooting skills, and ITIL knowledge.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Gigged.AI is an On-Demand Talent Platform specialising in the IT and technology sector. We have an opportunity live at the moment looking for an Infrastructure Engineer (Virtualisation) with one of our enterprise clients.
Start: ASAP
Duration: 6-month rolling contract (likely 1–2 years)
Rate: £550 per day (inside IR35)
Location: Hybrid – 2 days per week in Sheffield office to start (may reduce once established)
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer (Virtualisation) to join a leading financial services organisation on a contract basis. You will design, build, and support enterprise virtualisation platforms across on-premises and hybrid environments, ensuring stability, performance, and regulatory compliance. This role is key to maintaining secure, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure, enabling application and platform teams to deliver change safely.
Responsibilities
- Virtualisation Platform Engineering & Operations
- Build, operate, and maintain enterprise virtualisation platforms (VMware vSphere/ESXi, Hyper-V).
- Provide day‑2 operational support: monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity optimisation.
- Execute patching, upgrades, firmware updates, and hardware lifecycle activities.
- Ensure high availability, clustering, failover, and recovery mechanisms.
- Platform Lifecycle & Capacity Management
- Own platform lifecycle processes: build standards, upgrades, decommissioning, technical refreshes.
- Conduct capacity planning and forecasting to meet business demand.
- Identify and remediate single points of failure; support disaster recovery testing.
- Automation & Standardisation
- Develop and maintain automation for provisioning and configuration (scripting/Infrastructure as Code).
- Standardise virtualisation builds, templates, and configurations.
- Support integration with cloud and container platforms in hybrid delivery models.
- Incident, Problem & Change Management
- Act as escalation point for complex incidents.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive actions.
- Support controlled change execution following ITIL processes.
- Security, Risk & Compliance
- Ensure platforms meet security standards, hardening guidelines, and regulatory requirements.
- Support audits with documentation and operational evidence.
- Manage vulnerabilities, configuration drift, and access controls.
- Collaboration & Documentation
- Work closely with storage, network, OS, cloud, and application teams.
- Provide technical input for designs and onboarding.
- Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
Required Skills & Experience
Essential:
- Experience with enterprise virtualisation (VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter or equivalent).
- Proven infrastructure engineering or platform operations experience in enterprise environments.
- Hands-on with upgrades, patching, performance tuning, troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of server hardware, storage, and networking related to virtualisation.
- ITIL-aligned operational experience.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
Desirable:
- Experience in financial services or regulated industries.
- Scripting/automation experience (PowerShell, Python) and Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Knowledge of hybrid integration between virtualisation, cloud, and containers.
- Disaster recovery/business continuity experience.
Personal Attributes:
- Ownership and accountability for platform stability.
- Ability to work in global, multi-disciplinary teams.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proactive, focused on continuous improvement and risk reduction.
Remote Infrastructure Engineer (Virtualisation) - Contract in Aberdeen employer: Gigged.AI
At Gigged.AI, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer in the IT and technology sector, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration. Our hybrid working model allows for flexibility while maintaining strong team connections, particularly in our Sheffield office, where you can engage with like-minded professionals. With competitive rates and opportunities for professional growth within a leading financial services organisation, we empower our Infrastructure Engineers to thrive in their roles and contribute meaningfully to impactful projects.
