Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Do you have VMWare Cloud Foundation Core tools experience and experience maintaining and extending services offered to cloud tenants. We are recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud Foundation) to be a core member of an infrastructure engineering team delivering into and in support of an operational and multi-tenanted private cloud environment. Job Responsibilities SDN defined data centre networking design, deployment, troubleshooting and management to a 3rd line level. VMware NSX-T virtualised networking specifically end-to-end integration with SDN physical network Next Gen firewall and boundary firewall IDS/IPS design, deploy, troubleshoot and manage to a 3rd line level. Linux operating system (Ubuntu preferred) design, deploy, troubleshoot and manage to a 3rd line level. Windows OS, active directory and Windows-centric core services (WSUS, SCCM, etc) design, deploy, troubleshoot and manage to a 3rd line level. Data protection / management - VMware and guest OS and App integration. Security best practices, system and OS level security hardening (CISCAT benchmarking etc) using security vulnerability scanning tools such as Nessus. Creation of operating procedures and knowledge articles / process. Creation and on-going updates to detailed system design and configuration documentation. Involvement in the on-boarding and service transition of tenants into to a new hosting capability. Provide technical support, incident and request response in a live environment (predominantly 3rd line support) Skills Required Experience in digital project delivery into the MOD and/or central UK Government clients. Exposure to highly secure / operational / mission critical environments. Must have operational experience in a production setting with Vmware Cloud Foundation Core: vSphere / ESXi, vCenter, vSAN and NSX-T. Ideally some operational experience in a production setting with Vmware Cloud Foundation operations: Aria Automation, VMware Aria Operations, VMware Aria Operations for Logs, VMware Skyline. Linux (Ubuntu preferred) and Windows OS, active directory and windows centric core services experience. Cloud Readiness and Application Modernisation experience Hyper-converged infrastructure experience – Dell vXrail Security best practices, system and OS level security hardening (CISCAT benchmarking etc) security vulnerability scanning tools such as Nessus Desirable knowledge: k8 /container / Tanzu Kubernetes grid exposure / experience Security Clearance Requirements The successful candidate must hold SC level security clearance, as a minimum; DV preferred. Location The role will be onsite in Corsham 3-4 days a week with occasional travel to Portsmouth when required.