Virtualisation Engineer
Role Overview
Join the Virtualisation Engineering team to deliver automation and virtualisation as part of the University's IT digital roadmap.
Work with engineering, development, architecture, UX, analysis, product, and research colleagues on digital programmes.
Help define and develop self-service infrastructure for research, support implementations, and accelerate research delivery.
The role may include opportunities to deliver OpenStack infrastructure.
Key Skills for This Role
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The role
Join the Virtualisation Engineering team to deliver automation and virtualisation as part of the University's IT digital roadmap.
Work with engineering, development, architecture, UX, analysis, product, and research colleagues on digital programmes.
Help define and develop self-service infrastructure for research, support implementations, and accelerate research delivery.
The role may include opportunities to deliver OpenStack infrastructure.
Role responsibilities
- Define, deliver, and support enterprise infrastructure and hybrid platforms in complex environments.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering, development, architecture, and research teams.
- Help build self-service infrastructure and support implementations for research colleagues.
Essential criteria
- Strong experience supporting VMware or OpenStack and hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Administration and support of Linux and Windows Server operating systems.
- Scripting skills using technologies such as PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
- Experience with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu and Ansible.
- Knowledge of enterprise virtualisation, storage, and networking technologies.
- Experience with code repository management tools.
- Understanding of platform security and compliance frameworks.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and technical documentation skills.
Desirable criteria
- Experience with monitoring and logging platforms such as Zabbix and Grafana, or similar.
- Experience integrating infrastructure platforms with ServiceNow or similar ITSM tooling.
- Familiarity with Atlassian products such as Jira and Confluence.
- Strong collaborative working and stakeholder management skills.
Benefits and development
- The University encourages continuous learning, offers online training toward certifications, and describes a training plan and career path for development.
- Benefits include an employer-contribution pension, 29 days of annual leave plus bank holidays and Christmas closure, and ride-to-work and electric-vehicle schemes.
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