Senior IT Platform Engineer - 70K

Senior IT Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer - HPE/Pure, Storage VMWare, VCAP/VCIX, DevOps, Kubernetes, Automation, Windows Server, Linux, Datacentre, Infrastructure Specialist, Security - up to 70K

Exciting industry, exciting tech, exciting package, exciting team. Are you a Senior Infrastructure Engineer who has specialised in Virtualisation/VMware and Compute? Do you desire a more DevOps approach to your role? Can you embrace automation? If so, we have a role that will kick all others into touch.

Role: As a Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer, you will work in a dynamic infrastructure team and have responsibility for the current VMware, storage platforms, cloud, and associated underlying infrastructure hardware. Backup is also your domain including data management - the availability, structure, and analysis of data. You will also do capacity planning as well as technical & functional specification writing whilst working alongside project managers and other SMEs.

We are looking for an engineer who has some DevOps experience and/or is keen to embrace it. You should not shy away from automation.

This is a role where you will take this area of IT to the next level, being the ideas person who drives this forward.

As the Senior Infrastructure Engineer:

• Primary skills required: VMWare, Virtualisation, Datacentre, Enterprise SAN Storage platforms, HPE/Pure
• Secondary skills: Windows Server, Linux, Backup systems, AD, Networking, OpenStack, GIT, ITIL
• Additional: DevOps, Kubernetes, Automation, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, containerisation

Such an exciting time to join this client as they embark on a new era. They have recently gone through a restructure within IT and are looking to add key personnel to have domain responsibility.

This is predominantly an office-based role with some flexibility around homeworking. It's not your average IT role and should be viewed as a career changer, not just a job. For the Infrastructure Engineer / Infrastructure Architect who has a competitive streak, there is no better place to work. Ownership and accountability must be strengths, along with flexibility and being a strong team player.

Salary & Benefits: 60-70K, Bonus, Car scheme, Gym, Pension, Free parking, and onsite canteen.

Candidates of all ages and backgrounds will be considered for this role. Ascent People are acting as an Employment Agency in respect of this role.