Infrastructure Migration Engineer – Red Hat 56 (Contract) in Preston

We are seeking a specialist Infrastructure Migration Engineer to support the Physical to Virtual (P2V) migration of legacy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 & 6 servers as part of a wider remediation initiative. This engagement is critical due to internal resource constraints and compatibility limitations with Red Hat 6 requiring expert intervention to ensure a secure and effective transition to supported platforms.

Location: Preston On site

Contract Type: 3 Months

Start Date: Immediate

Sector: IT Infrastructure / Server Migration

Rate: Competitive based on experience (Outside IR35)

UK Right to work: Must have full UK RTW and 5 year address history in UK to facilitate immediate start and pass all background checks required

Scope of Work

• Assess and validate viable P2V strategies for RHEL6 servers
• Attempt migration of two RHEL6 servers to Hyper-V
• Confirm boot success driver compatibility and system integrity post-migration
• Document a repeatable P2V process and tooling (e.g. Disk2VHD Clonezilla)
• Deliver remaining server migrations using the approved method
• Collaborate with internal teams to support access control and data migration
• Assist with post-migration testing and acceptance
• Install standard security tooling on all migrated and rebuilt VMs :

Additional Information

Competitive compensation tailored to your interests priorities flexibility work-life balance expertise experience and ambitions.

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full-time

Key Skills

Jenkins,Ruby,Python,Active Directory,Cloud,PowerShell,Windows,AWS,Linux,SAN,Java,Troubleshoot,Backup,Puppet,hardware