Platform Operations Engineer

About the role

ScienTec Consulting is looking for an experienced Platform Operations Engineer to maintain, support and enhance critical on-premises infrastructure and platforms for government digital projects. The role covers virtualisation, infrastructure automation and platform modernisation.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain and support on-premises infrastructure, including compute, storage, virtualisation and supporting systems across development, staging and production environments.
• Manage VMware, Hyper-V and virtualisation platforms, ensuring optimal performance, capacity planning and system availability.
• Provide L2/L3 technical support, troubleshoot infrastructure incidents, perform root cause analysis, patching and system maintenance.
• Implement infrastructure automation, monitoring and configuration management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern operational practices.
• Support backup, disaster recovery, high availability, security compliance and infrastructure modernisation initiatives, working with technical teams and stakeholders.

Required profile

• Hands-on experience in on-premises infrastructure operations, including server administration, compute, storage and enterprise infrastructure support.
• Experience in Windows/Linux server administration, infrastructure patching, incident management and L2/L3 technical support.
• Knowledge of backup, disaster recovery, high availability and infrastructure security practices.

Required skills

• Virtualisation technologies such as VMware, vSphere, ESXi or Hyper-V, including provisioning, performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and monitoring tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Prometheus, Grafana or the ELK stack.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift is advantageous.