VMware Migration Engineer

VMware Migration Engineer (Infrastructure Migration)

Contract

Sheffield or Birmingham, 3 days a week onsite

Up to £450 per day | 3-6 Month Contract with likely extension | Banking Client

Background verification required.

You will help a Tier 1 bank migrate a large VMware estate at pace, keeping critical banking services stable through every cutover.

THE ROLE:

• Discover and assess VMware workloads, dependencies and migration readiness
• Design and run migration waves using HCX, vMotion and related tooling, or move workloads to cloud or alternative platforms
• Plan cutovers and rollbacks to keep downtime and risk to a minimum
• Fix performance, networking and storage issues during and after migration
• Write runbooks, build sheets and handover docs for run teams

REQURIMENT:

• Deep VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter experience
• A track record of large-scale VMware or data centre migrations
• A solid grasp of networking, storage and compute in an enterprise estate
• Tier 1 banking experience, ideally previous HSBC
• VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX or vSAN
• Experience of migrations to Azure, AWS, GCP or alternative hypervisors
• Scripting and automation (PowerCLI, Ansible, Terraform)