Senior Platform Engineer / VDI Engineer

*Location:* *Glasgow (hybrid working \- 2\-3 days onsite)*

*Duration:* *12 months \+*

*Vetting:* *SC security clearance will be required*

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in a Senior Platform Engineer, EUC Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer role within a complex enterprise environment.


• Proven experience designing, implementing, supporting, and troubleshooting VMware Horizon environments.

+ Strong technical knowledge of:
+ VMware Horizon
+ Unified Access Gateway (UAG)
+ App Volumes
+ Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM)
+ Instant Clones
+ VMware vSphere and ESXi
+ VDI creation, management and monitoring.

• Extensive experience supporting Microsoft Windows Server and Windows desktop operating systems.


• Strong working knowledge of Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, PKI, Certificate Services, and authentication technologies.


• Advanced PowerShell scripting and automation experience.


• Experience with virtualisation technologies, particularly VMware vSphere, vCenter, clusters, distributed switching, and storage integration.


• Strong understanding of end\-user computing technologies, profile management, application virtualisation, and desktop lifecycle management.


• Experience troubleshooting complex platform issues to 3rd and 4th line support levels.


• Demonstrable experience working within Agile, DevOps, or product\-focused delivery teams.


• Experience using infrastructure monitoring and performance management platforms.


• Working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, and IT Service Management tooling.


• Experience managing platform certificates and secure communications across enterprise environments.


• Proven experience delivering platform upgrades, migrations, and transformation initiatives.


• Good understanding of hybrid infrastructure environments spanning both on\-premises and cloud\-hosted services.


• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes.

Desirable

• Relevant qualifications in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.


• VMware Certified Professional (VCP), VMware Horizon certification, or equivalent VMware accreditation.


• Microsoft certifications relating to Windows Server, Azure, or End User Computing technologies.


• Experience supporting cloud\-based infrastructure platforms including GCP, Microsoft Azure and AWS.


• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management technologies including Entra ID (Azure AD), MFA, Conditional Access, and SSO solutions.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks.

• Supplementary Information


• May involve occasional out\-of\-hours work to support maintenance activities, platform upgrades, or major incident response.

Occasional travel between organisational sites may be necessary.

• Our client operates hybrid working 2\-3 days in East Kilbride, with occasional client site visits will be required into Glasgow.

For further details please apply including full CV.

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