Infrastructure Specialist

IT Platform Engineer – VMware Infrastructure

About the Rol

eAkkodis is looking for an IT Platform Engineer with strong VMware experience to support a cutting-edge Software Defined Defence Space R&D programme. You will support the deployment, management and optimisation of virtualised infrastructure environments used by engineering and development teams

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This is an opportunity to work within a technically advanced environment supporting high-performance engineering and software development activitie

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Key Responsibilit

ies• Support and maintain VMware-based infrastructure platfo

rms• Configure, manage and optimise virtual machine environme

nts• Support infrastructure availability, resilience and performa

nce• Work with engineering teams to support development and test environme

nts• Assist with infrastructure troubleshooting, upgrades and system improveme

nts• Contribute to platform security, backup and operational best pract

ice• Support hybrid and remote infrastructure environments where requi

red
Required Experi

ence• Strong experience with VMware platform administration and sup

port• Experience managing virtualised server environm

ents• Good understanding of infrastructure, networking and storage conc

epts• Experience supporting enterprise IT platforms and engineering environm

ents• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving sk

ills
Desirable Exper

ience• Experience within defence, aerospace or secure technical environ

ments• Familiarity with Windows and Linux server administr

ation• Knowledge of cloud or hybrid infrastructure environ

ments• Exposure to automation or infrastructure-as-code tooling would be benef