Infrastructure Engineer (BAU) – SC Cleared

Location: Hampshire (on-site minimum 4 days/week)
Clearance: SC required
Contract Length: ASAP start – provisionally until end of July
Sector: Secure / Defence Environment

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to support BAU operations within a secure, high-availability environment. You will be responsible for maintaining and optimising VMware infrastructure, ensuring resilience, performance, and security across virtualised platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Administer VMware vSphere environments including ESXi hosts, vCenter, clusters, and resource pools
Design and maintain vSAN hyper-converged storage solutions
Configure and manage HA/DRS for high availability and failover resilience
Manage VMware networking including vSwitches, distributed switches, VLANs, and segmentation
Support backup and disaster recovery integrations (e.g., Veeam, SRM, Zerto)
Automate provisioning using PowerCLI and templates
Monitor and optimise performance across hosts and VMs
Apply security hardening and compliance controls

Desirable

VMware Horizon / VDI experience
Experience in secure or regulated environments

Apply / Refer

If you are an SC-cleared Infrastructure Engineer available at short notice and looking to support a critical secure programme, we would welcome a confidential conversation.

Even if you are not currently available, we are keen to connect with VMware specialists for upcoming secure infrastructure programmes.

Know someone suitable? Referrals within the cleared community are invaluable — please share or introduce directly

Infrastructure Engineer - SC Cleared