£60,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Own the Backup Platform. Build Resilient Infrastructure. Lead with Veeam.
Are you an experienced infrastructure specialist with very strong Veeam expertise and a solid background in VMware and Hyper-V?
We're working with an established and growing technology business near Cardiff that needs a hands-on infrastructure expert to build, manage and improve its backup and platform infrastructure. As a Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer, you'll take ownership of the Veeam environment while supporting resilient infrastructure across VMware and Hyper-V estates.
This is not an Azure DevOps role and it is not a cloud-only position. It is a hands-on infrastructure role focused on platform operations, backup, recovery, virtualisation and resilience.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer, you'll:
* Build, manage and optimise the Veeam Backup & Replication platform.
* Own backup, recovery, replication and disaster recovery processes across the infrastructure estate.
* Act as the senior technical escalation point for Veeam, VMware, Hyper-V and wider infrastructure issues.
* Lead technical investigations and major incident recovery, particularly around backup, restore and platform availability.
* Drive automation to reduce manual processes and improve operational efficiency.
* Develop and maintain monitoring, observability and alerting using tools such as Grafana.
* Coordinate the day-to-day priorities of the Platform Engineering team.
* Maintain engineering standards, documentation and operational procedures.
* Support infrastructure upgrades, migrations, platform optimisation and continuous improvement initiatives.
* Contribute to the design and implementation of new platform capabilities.
* Help deliver highly resilient, reliable infrastructure supporting business-critical services.
What We're Looking For
Essential
* Strong commercial experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, Platform Engineer, Infrastructure Platform Engineer, Senior Infrastructure Engineer or similar.
* Very strong hands-on Veeam Backup & Replication experience, including backup jobs, replication, recovery testing, troubleshooting and platform administration.
* Excellent VMware vSphere / ESXi administration experience.
* Strong Hyper-V administration experience.
* Clear background in on-premises or hybrid infrastructure environments, rather than a purely cloud-based or Azure DevOps-focused role.
* Experience supporting highly available production infrastructure.
* Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across enterprise infrastructure.
* Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana.
* Experience automating operational tasks using PowerShell, scripting or similar technologies.
* Excellent understanding of backup, disaster recovery and platform resilience.
* Ability to coordinate technical workloads and mentor engineers within a collaborative team.
Desirable
Experience with any of the following would be advantageous but is not essential:
Zerto
Cohesity
OpsRamp
Microsoft 365 Backup
Workflow automation tools such as n8n
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
ITIL environments
Managed Service Provider (MSP) experience
Customer onboarding and service transition
Why Join?
You'll be joining a collaborative engineering team where your technical expertise will genuinely influence how platforms are operated and improved.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, driving automation, improving reliability and helping shape engineering standards within a modern technology environment.
If you're an experienced Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer with strong Veeam expertise and solid VMware and Hyper-V experience, we'd love to hear from you
Salary description
£55000.00 - £60000.00 per year