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Platform Engineer
DataVita · High Blantyre, SCT, United Kingdom
High Blantyre, SCT, United KingdomHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
High Blantyre, SCT, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Platform Engineer role focuses on delivering customer and internal projects as an infrastructure generalist across various technologies. Key responsibilities include designing and supporting virtualisation, compute, storage, and network infrastructure, automating tasks, and troubleshooting complex issues. Proficiency in VMware, Hyper-V, Fortinet firewalls, and scripting languages like PowerShell or Python is essential for success in this position.
Benefits
33 days annual leavePension: 5% employee, 5% employerLife assurance at 4x salaryGroup income protection at 70% of salary for up to 2 yearsHelp@Hand: remote GP - physiotherapy, nutritionist, and moreCycle to Work and EV car salary sacrifice schemes6 fully expensed company events per yearOption to donate to charity through salary
Qualifications
- VMware - vSphere/ESXi in production, including cluster build and lifecycle management
- Hyper-V - build, configuration and day-to-day operation
- Fortinet - FortiGate firewalls and wider Fortinet product set
- Cisco - switching and routing in a data centre or enterprise environment
- Storage - NetApp or comparable enterprise storage platforms (SAN/NAS, replication, snapshots)
- Scripting and automation — strong practical ability in at least one of: PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible or Terraform
- Backup - Cohesity or comparable enterprise backup and recovery software
- Server estates – HPE/Dell/Cisco/Lenovo hardware management
- Observability — hands-on experience across the monitoring stack
Responsibilities
- Designing, building, and supporting virtualisation, compute, storage, network and backup infrastructure across data centres
- Delivering customer projects end to end, from scoping and design through to build, migration and handover
- Delivering internal infrastructure projects that improve platforms, resilience and efficiency
- Automating repetitive build and configuration work
- Contributing to the architecture and build of future cloud and HPC platform
- Troubleshooting complex, cross-domain issues
- Producing and maintaining clear documentation and as-built records
- Providing escalation support to colleagues
Skills
AnsibleArgo CDBashFluxGrafanaGraylogKibanaKubernetesLogstashLokiOpenStackPowerShellPrometheusPythonTerraformVMwarevSphere
Work schedule
37 hours per week5 days onsite
Relocation
No