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Platform Engineer - Site Reliability
£41,000 - 71,500
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Fountainbridge 92-98, Edinburgh
£41,000 - 71,500
Requirements
Must:
- Strong experience with VMware 6/7/8 multi-site environments
- Hands-on knowledge of Cisco UCS, NSX, and Fibre Channel fabrics (Brocade)
- Proven experience with disaster recovery planning and execution
- Solid understanding of data centre best practices
- Proficiency in Windows and RHEL operating systems
- Infrastructure as Code and automation skills (Ansible, PowerShell/PowerCLI, Bash, Python)
- Experience with platform monitoring and observability, including Grafana
- Familiarity with Agile and DevOps ways of working
- Desirable certifications in VMware, Nutanix, or NetApp
- Experience with Commvault, vRA, MetroCluster, or Nutanix platforms
- Security architecture and hybrid/cloud exposure
Responsibilities
- Support and enhance virtualization and storage platforms, ensuring availability, performance, and resilience
- Contribute to the planning and adoption of NVMe storage technologies
- Improve platform engineering practices for VMware vMotion and workload mobility
- Enhance and expand the Commvault backup service, ensuring full platform coverage
- Strengthen disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities
- Collaborate with product and engineering colleagues to shape the platform roadmap and backlog
- Design, plan, and deploy new infrastructure solutions (e.g., NSX, vRealize, Nutanix, SAN migrations)
- Monitor platform health, capacity, and performance using modern observability tools
- Maintain documentation, designs, and operational procedures
- Support live incidents, DR events, and out-of-hours activities where required
Description
We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to support and enhance our large-scale on-premise compute and storage platform. This role focuses on delivering resilience, performance, and efficiency improvements across our critical infrastructure services. You will be part of a collaborative, multi-functional, and agile team within the Site Resilience domain, working remotely with occasional travel to Edinburgh or Glasgow. We offer a competitive day rate and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees.
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