VMware NSX Specialist

We’re proud to be at the forefront of innovation, developing a cutting-edge Managed Service to modernize and replace a complex legacy enterprise infrastructure. This ambitious project will leverage advanced automation and repeatable component design patterns, enabling rapid deployment of customer business solutions.
Our work integrates powerful technologies, including Windows, VMware, Ansible, Terraform, and robust scripting, all underpinned by niche infrastructure and applications expertise.

As our new VMware NSX Specialist, you will bring your expertise in VMware NSX, F5, and VMware AVI to a dynamic Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) environment. Collaborate with a skilled team to deliver highly automated and scalable solutions and contribute to transforming legacy systems into a modern, efficient enterprise infrastructure.

What you'll be doing:

1. Design, implement, and maintain network solutions using NSX-T, AVI, and Secure Linux technologies to support hyper-converged infrastructure environments.
2. Lead the deployment and configuration of NSX-T components, including logical networking, distributed firewall, load balancer, and VPN services, to enable network virtualisation and micro-segmentation.
3. Deploy and maintain AVI load balancers for modern application delivery, automation, and analytics, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
4. Perform capacity planning and scalability assessments to ensure network infrastructures can support current and future growth requirements.
5. Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation of network designs, configurations, change records, and operational procedures.

What you’ll bring:

1. VMware NSX or NSX-T or NSX-V.
2. VMware AVI Load Balancers.
3. Familiarity with Tiered access model.

It would be great if you had:

1. Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)
2. Network Monitoring and Management
3. Security Best Practices
4. Active SC or DV Clearance

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Farnborough
Security Clearance Level: Current SC Clearance and eligible for DV
Internal Recruiter: Carolyne
Salary: D.O.E
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

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