TJ 18968 - INFRASTRUCTURE & VIRTUALISATION ENGINEER

Introduction

Ref: TJ 18968 - INFRASTRUCTURE & VIRTUALISATION ENGINEER

Employer Description

An MSP, MSSP, and Enterprise ISP delivering tailored ICT solutions across infrastructure, networking, cloud, software development, and security.

Duties & Responsibilities

Job Description

• Support and maintain virtualisation platforms, with   Proxmox   as the primary environment

• Monitor hypervisor health, cluster performance, storage utilisation, and resource availability

• Perform VM provisioning and lifecycle management

• Assist with cluster operations, host monitoring, HA environments, and capacity planning

• Troubleshoot hypervisor-related performance and operational issues

Virtual Machine Deployment & Migration

• Provision virtual machines

• Configure CPU, RAM, storage, networking, tagging, and VM templates

• Assist with customer and internal VM migrations, including   VMware to Proxmox migrations

• Support cutover planning and migration execution with minimal downtime

Backup & Recovery

• Monitor and maintain backup health across:

• Veeam Backup & Replication

• Nakivo Backup Server

• Veeam Backup & Replication

• Nakivo Backup Server

Veeam Backup & Replication

Nakivo Backup Server

• Investigate failed backup jobs and restore issues

• Monitor backup storage utilisation and retention compliance

• Assist with VM-level restore operations when required

• Support backup optimisation and repository maintenance

Storage & Platform Maintenance

• Monitor storage pools, storage health, and disk utilisation

• Assist with performance optimisation and infrastructure tuning

• Support platform maintenance, including:

• Proxmox updates

• VMware ESXi / vCenter system updates

• Firmware updates

• Repository clean-up

• Host performance optimisation

Infrastructure Support & Client Environments

• Support customer-hosted infrastructure environments from the virtualisation layer upward

• Assist with infrastructure stability, uptime, and platform readiness

Network Support

• Monitor network dashboards for alerts, outages, and performance issues

• Perform basic network diagnostics, including:

• Ping

• Traceroute

• DNS checks

• Endpoint connectivity testing

• Troubleshoot connectivity issues and identify whether faults are local, infrastructure-related, or upstream

• Escalate advanced routing or core network issues to senior network engineers

Documentation & Operations

• Host configurations

• VM deployment procedures

• Migration plans

• Backup processes

• Maintenance procedures

Desired Experience & Qualification

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in IT, Infrastructure, Systems Administration, or related field

• Relevant VMWare & Infrastructure Certification

Skills

Minimum of 5 years experience

• Proxmox VE

• VMware / ESXi / vCenter

• Virtual Machine Provisioning & Lifecycle Management

• Backup Monitoring & Restore Operations

• Veeam Backup & Replication

• Nakivo Backup

• Storage Monitoring & Capacity Management

• Infrastructure Monitoring

• Hypervisor Maintenance

• Infrastructure Troubleshooting

• Technical Documentation

• Ticket Management in a client-facing support environment

Advantageous Experience

Experience in any of the following would be highly beneficial

• Ceph

• ZFS

• Storage replication

• Cluster management

• Datacentre infrastructure

• Infrastructure migrations

• Networking diagnostics and connectivity troubleshooting

• MSP or managed infrastructure environments

Package & Remuneration

Salary/Package

Highly negotiable (Experience & qualifications Driven)

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Retirement Fund