📍 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
Salary description
£650.00 - £750.00 per day