Senior Platform Engineer - VMware Cloud Foundation

Senior Platform Engineer (VMware Cloud Foundation) - DV Cleared

📍 Location: Yeovil (3 days onsite per week)

💰 Rate: £650-£750 per day (Inside IR35)

🗓 Contract: Long-term opportunity

🔒 Clearance: Must hold active MOD DV Clearance

We're looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer with strong VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) expertise to join a high-profile defence programme delivering secure, mission-critical infrastructure.

This role offers an excellent work-life balance, with 3 longer onsite days per week while being paid for a full 5-day week, making it ideal for contractors looking to maximise their time.

The Role

You'll play a key role in designing, building and supporting secure on-premise and hybrid platforms within highly secure environments. Working as part of an experienced engineering team, you'll lead technical delivery, support platform integration, and help shape modern software-defined infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Design, build and support secure VMware Cloud Foundation platforms

Lead technical delivery across platform engineering work packages

Produce and review technical designs and documentation

Integrate, test and optimise platform components

Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership

Work closely with project teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient solutions

Drive automation and continuous improvement across the platform estate

Essential Skills

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) including:

vSphere

vSAN

NSX-T

Aria Suite

VMware and Hyper-V virtualisation

Windows and Linux administration

Software Defined Datacentre (SDDC) design and operation

NSX networking and micro-segmentation

Strong networking knowledge (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Firewalls)

Automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible or Terraform

Systems engineering across the full project lifecycle

Cyber security principles within secure enterprise or defence environments

Experience integrating compute, storage and networking into enterprise platforms

Desirable

VMware VCP certification

AWS or other cloud platform experience

Infrastructure as Code

Active Directory, PKI, PAM, SIEM integration

VxRail / Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

VCF lifecycle management (deployment, patching and upgrades)

Kubernetes and Docker

DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines

Requirements

Active MOD Developed Vetting (DV) Clearance is essential.

Ability to work onsite in Yeovil three days per week (extended days can be worked to condense the week).If you're a DV-cleared VMware Cloud Foundation specialist looking for a well-paid contract on a secure programme with a condensed working pattern, we'd love to hear from you