Site Reliability Engineer (Hyper-V Infrastructure)

Site Reliability Engineer (Hyper-V Infrastructure)

Location: London (5 Days Onsite)
Contract: Inside IR35
Day Rate: Up to £450 per day
Duration: Initial 6 months (Likely Extension)

We're recruiting for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)/Infrastructure Engineer to join a major Banking organisation, supporting a mission-critical Microsoft Hyper-V Private Cloud platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on maintaining the reliability, availability and performance of a large-scale Hyper-V estate. You'll work within a highly regulated environment, delivering production support, infrastructure automation, platform upgrades and continuous service improvements.

This opportunity is ideal for an Infrastructure Engineer with strong Hyper-V, Windows Server and PowerShell expertise who enjoys solving complex production issues and improving operational resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure.
• Manage Hyper-V Failover Clusters, storage, networking and high availability.
• Perform Windows Server administration, patching, upgrades and life cycle management.
• Support private cloud and VDI platforms within a production environment.
• Automate operational tasks using PowerShell.
• Manage disaster recovery, backup and business continuity activities.
• Perform proactive monitoring, incident management, root cause analysis and service improvement.
• Support infrastructure migrations including P2V, V2V and platform modernisation.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Security and Platform Engineering teams to improve reliability and operational efficiency.
• Produce technical documentation, runbooks and operational procedures.

Essential Skills (must have)

• Strong Microsoft Hyper-V administration experience.
• Windows Server 2016/2019/2022 administration.
• Hyper-V Failover Clustering and High Availability.
• PowerShell Scripting and infrastructure automation.
• Storage technologies including SAN/NAS, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) or Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV).
• SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager).
• Disaster Recovery, Backup and Hyper-V Replica.
• Experience supporting enterprise production infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills.
• ITIL environment experience
• Experience working within Banking or Financial Services.

Desirable Skills

• Azure Monitor, SCOM, Splunk, Grafana or Prometheus.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible or similar).
• VDI technologies.
• Azure or Hybrid Cloud.
• Veeam Backup.

Experience Required

• 6+ years' Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• 4+ years' hands-on Microsoft Hyper-V administration.
• Experience supporting highly available production environments.
• Strong understanding of operational resilience, platform reliability and continuous service improvement.
• Previous experience within a regulated Financial Services or Banking environment is highly desirable.