Hybrid Infrastructure Engineer

As a Hybrid Infrastructure Engineer, your role will involve designing, building, and operating hybrid infrastructure across estate and on-premises VMware virtual-infrastructure estate. You will collaborate with architecture and development teams to ensure secure and reliable infrastructure across Azure and on-premises datacentres. Your responsibilities will include designing and deploying Azure services, developing Infrastructure-as-Code templates, and implementing VMware solutions. Key Responsibilities: - Work with architecture and development teams to design secure and reliable infrastructure across Azure and on-premises datacentres. Responsibilities include designing and deploying Azure services, developing Infrastructure-as-Code templates, and implementing VMware solutions such as vSphere, vCenter, and ESXi. - Architect, deploy, and optimize virtualized environments using vSphere, vCenter, and ESXi. Ensure high availability and disaster-recovery capabilities, implement best practices for capacity planning, resource allocation, and performance tuning. Troubleshoot virtualization performance issues. - Design, deploy, and manage cloud applications using Azure services. Automate provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code templates and scripting. Monitor and optimize Azure resources for performance and cost efficiency. Ensure compliance with security best practices and regulatory standards. - Act as a project-focused engineer, delivering on-prem, hybrid, and cloud projects. Install, configure, troubleshoot, upgrade, and support cloud and on-prem technology solutions. Provide documentation and knowledge transfer to peers and users. - Implement and support backup solutions, ensure disaster-recovery and business-continuity requirements are met in both Azure and VMware environments. Configure and manage Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery services. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, provide technical guidance, and integrate hybrid infrastructure solutions. Communicate progress to leadership and provide training and support to colleagues and end users. - Identify opportunities for automation and operational efficiency. Develop scripts and processes to automate repetitive tasks and infrastructure deployments. Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting best practices. - Build comprehensive observability across hybrid infrastructure using monitoring tools such as SolarWinds. Discover, map, and monitor routers, switches, servers, and firewalls to understand network and system performance. - Configure, manage, and troubleshoot firewall and security appliances. Develop and enforce security policies, monitor network traffic, perform system updates and patches, and collaborate with IT teams to resolve security issues and maintain compliance. - Support physical infrastructure and datacenter assets, plan and execute datacentre projects, expand compute and storage capacity, apply application and OS patches, and troubleshoot performance issues. Embrace an automation mindset and collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline processes and drive continuous improvements. Qualifications Required: - Proven experience designing and managing hybrid infrastructure projects spanning on-premises and cloud environments. - Extensive hands-on experience with VMware technologies and strong understanding of virtualization concepts, networking, and storage. - Demonstrable experience with Azure infrastructure services and hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools. - Experience implementing and managing backup, failover clustering, and disaster-recovery solutions across cloud and on-prem environments. - Familiarity with security and identity solutions, scripting skills for automation, observability and network-monitoring tools, and experience with Fortinet/FortiGate firewalls. - Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Certifications such as VMware Certified Professional, Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, ITIL Foundation, or TOGAF are advantageous. As a Hybrid Infrastructure Engineer, your role will involve designing, building, and operating hybrid infrastructure across estate and on-premises VMware virtual-infrastructure estate. You will collaborate with architecture and development teams to ensure secure and reliable infrastructure across Azure and on-premises datacentres. Your responsibilities will include designing and deploying Azure services, developing Infrastructure-as-Code templates, and implementing VMware solutions. Key Responsibilities: - Work with architecture and development teams to design secure and reliable infrastructure across Azure and on-premises datacentres. Responsibilities include designing and deploying Azure services, developing Infrastructure-as-Code templates, and implementing VMware solutions such as vSphere, vCenter, and ESXi. - Architect, deploy, and optimize virtualized environments using vSphere, vCenter,