Infrastructure Engineer - Linux, Windows, VMware

My client, a leading sporting institution, and household name are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Platform Engineer to join their team of engineers and join some of the brightest minds in their field. You will help to provide and support the entire suite of IT infrastructure and services that empower the business to succeed.

The Role:

* Implementing infrastructure platforms across several technology stacks to provide secure, reliable, high performing and scalable services for the wider team to consume.

* Managing and maintaining a mix of traditional (datacentres, storage, backup/restore/DR, hypervisor, compute) and modern (containerisation, cloud, serverless) capabilities across Windows and Linux operating systems.

* Installing and configuring physical IT hardware in a datacentre environment, maintaining the facility and the associated infrastructure in concert with site facilities.

* Supporting and troubleshooting Windows and Linux server workloads, virtual machines, containers, clusters, and services, including out of hours escalation when needed.

* Managing and maintaining tooling to automate complex and error-prone tasks, allowing for continual improvement, integrating and evolving products pragmatically to meet business requirements.

Candidates Must Have the Following Skills / Experience:

* In-depth knowledge and experience of Linux, Windows and hypervisor technologies, storage platforms, and associated underlying infrastructure hardware.

* Experience with platforms and services including VMware, Active Directory and Kubernetes including token-based and certificate authentication.

* Knowledge of writing scripts and automation tooling to help achieve business goals without timeconsuming manual intervention.

* Wider experience with various datacentre infrastructures and systems, including cooling, structured cabling, networking and firewalls to enable close working with other technical and site services teams.

This is an exceptioal role, CVs to Nick ASAP for immediate review