Virtualisation Engineer

Position: Virtualisation Engineer
Location: Cheltenham / Gloucestershire
Salary band: £50,000 to £60,000 per annum
Clearance: Willingness to undergo a security clearance process is required

Are you ready to take your VMware expertise into one of the most secure and impactful environments in the UK? This is your chance to join a major multinational technology organisation delivering large-scale, mission-critical services to the UK Government. Your work will directly support national-level operations where reliability, precision, and resilience truly matter.

What You'll Be Doing

• Providing first and second-line technical support across complex virtualised environments
• Monitoring system performance to ensure stability, availability, and seamless functionality
• Creating and maintaining high-quality documentation to support operational excellence
• Supporting compliance with established processes, standards, and security policies

What You'll Bring

• Strong organisational and time-management skills
• Experience working to ITIL best practices
• A mindset focused on root-cause analysis and continuous improvement
• A collaborative approach - sharing knowledge and learning from others
• A proactive attitude towards identifying risks, issues, and opportunities

Desirable Skills

• Deep understanding of virtualisation technologies
• Experience installing, upgrading, configuring, or supporting: Windows Server 2016/2019, AWS, Azure
• Knowledge of Red Hat technologies (Satellite 6, OpenShift 3/4, RHEL/CentOS, CoreOS)
• Understanding of Active Directory (OU creation, RBAC, DFS)
• Familiarity with VSAN, SCVMM, Hyper-V
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, LAN/WAN)
• Scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python, Git)
• Awareness of McAfee EPO/ENS

What's In It for You

• Competitive salary and pension
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Access to employee recognition schemes, social events, and wellbeing initiatives

If you're passionate about virtualisation, thrive in secure environments, and want to work on projects that genuinely matter, this is the place to take your career to the next level. To learn more, please do reach out to Tom Royston via email on

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason, please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

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