Infrastructure Engineer

Contract Length: 3 Months Initial Contract

Location: Remote, UK (with occasional site visits)

IR35 Status: Outside IR35

Start Date: ASAP

The Opportunity

We are supporting a large enterprise customer currently undertaking several strategic infrastructure transformation projects. As part of a wider modernisation programme, they are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to support the migration and rebuild of their existing VMware estate to Proxmox.

This is a hands-on technical role focused on solution design, migration planning, implementation and optimisation, working closely with internal infrastructure and project teams to ensure a successful transition with minimal disruption to business operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the migration of virtualised workloads from VMware to Proxmox.
• Assess existing VMware environments and develop migration plans and methodologies.
• Build and configure new Proxmox infrastructure platforms.
• Perform workload migrations, testing and validation activities.
• Design and implement high-availability and disaster recovery solutions where required.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, virtualisation and performance issues.
• Produce technical documentation, migration runbooks and support handover materials.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking and project teams throughout delivery.
• Provide technical guidance and best practice recommendations around Proxmox platform adoption.

Required Experience

• Strong experience administering and supporting VMware vSphere environments.
• Proven experience delivering VMware to Proxmox migration projects.
• Strong understanding of virtualisation technologies and enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Experience with storage technologies including SAN, NAS and shared storage platforms.
• Good understanding of networking concepts including VLANs, routing and switching.
• Experience building and managing highly available virtualisation environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills.
• Experience working within enterprise-scale IT environments.
• Ability to work independently and deliver against project milestones.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with Linux-based infrastructure and administration.
• Knowledge of backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience with automation and scripting technologies.
• Exposure to enterprise transformation or datacentre migration projects.
• Experience working alongside multiple delivery workstreams within complex organisations.

What's on Offer

• Initial 3-month contract.
• Outside IR35 engagement.
• Remote-first working arrangement.
• Opportunity to play a key role in a major infrastructure transformation programme.
• Potential contract extension based on project requirements.

If you have recently delivered successful VMware to Proxmox migrations and are comfortable working within complex enterprise environments, we'd like to hear from you.