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Digital Transformation Through Agile Delivery
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Digital Transformation Through Agile Delivery
IT Agility AbilityTM

Virtualisation Platform Engineer

By . October 9, 2025
Job title:Virtualisation Platform Engineer
Job type:Contract
Emp type:Full-time
Pay interval:Daily
Pay rate:GBP £680.0
Location: Manchester
Job published: 09/10/2025
Job ID: 87622

Job Description

Virtualisation Platform Engineer

Duration: 6 Months

Rate: £685.00 per day

Location: Manchester & Remote (hybrid working)

IR35 Status: Inside

Start ASAP

 

Role Overview:

We require 2 experienced Virtualisation Platform Engineers for our higher education client to join their team within the IT Services department.You will form part of their high performing, collaborative technical team  working on meaningful and high-impact projects.  In this role you will be working on cutting-edge infrastructure, enable developer productivity and contribute to building scalable, secure and efficient systems.

As the Virtualisation Platform Engineer you will play a key role in designing, building and maintaining the platforms and tooling that support their infrastructure provisioning and delivery lifecycle.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to automate infrastructure, improve observability and implement best practices in VMware, Hypervisor and DevOps.

 

Essential Skills and Experience required:

As the Virtualisation Platform Engineer you will:

Posses proven experience as a Virtualisation Platform Engineer or a similar role

Have strong knowledge of On-prem virtualisation platforms and container orchestration

Proficiency with IaC tools and automation scripting (Bash, Python, etc.)

Experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems

Passionate for engineering excellence and operational efficiency

 

Key Responsibilities include:

Build and maintain on-prem and cloud infrastructure (e.g., VMware Hypervisor, vSphere, OpenStack, AWS, GCP, Azure)

Deep Knowledge of O/S and networking principles is key for this role (Window, Linux, Firewalls & Load Balancers (Palo Alto, F5)

Manage containerised environments (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)

Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines

Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance

Implement (IaC) Infrastructure-as-Code in terms Terraform and scripting etc.

Champion DevOps/SRE principles across teams

 

To apply for this role please email your CV toJoanne Stanley:  joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk

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