IT Manager - Infrastrucure, Virtualization & Storage
1 day ago
London
Role:IT Manager Backup, Storage & Virtualisation (Contract) Location: Fully Remote (occasional UK travel) Start: ASAP Inside IR35 This is a senior, hands-on leadership role where youll take ownership of storage, backup, and virtualisation platforms supporting large-scale, business-critical environments. What Youll Be Doing • Leading and mentoring a team of infrastructure engineers, • Acting as the technical SME across storage, backup, and virtualisation, • Driving VMware optimisation and cost reduction initiatives (key focus), • Supporting and delivering migration of workloads away from VMware, • Ensuring platform stability, performance, security, and compliance, • Working closely with cloud teams across Azure and GCP, • Defining and implementing technology roadmaps and strategy, • Driving automation, standardisation, and operational efficiency, • Acting as a senior escalation point for complex technical issuesWhat Were Looking For, • Strong experience with VMware (vSphere/VCF/enterprise environments), • Experience with alternative virtualisation platforms (KVM, Hyper-V, Nutanix), • Proven background in enterprise storage solutions (e.g. Pure, HPE, NetApp), • Experience with backup technologies (Veritas essential, ...