Infrastructure & Virtualization Engineer

About Advannor

We enable organisations to create value through bespoke solutions in an open approachable way. Drawing on expertise across various engineering fields we adapt our solutions to meet each organisations unique needs and connect them with top talent. Our focus on responsiveness and flexibility ensures your business can thrive and reach its full potential.

The Role

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Advannor you will be a key contributor to the virtualization and software infrastructure layer that underpins the operation of complex industrial environments including onshore and offshore wind plants. You will work hands-on with VMware vSphere environments support critical OT systems and play an active role in evaluating and implementing hypervisor alternatives as part of our ongoing platform evolution.

Responsibilities:

• Manage maintain and optimise VMware vSphere environments (v8/v9) across IT and OT infrastructure.
• Plan and execute environment upgrades and migrations ensuring continuity and reliability in production.
• Assess and evaluate viable hypervisor alternatives to VMware (e.g. Proxmox Hyper-V Nutanix) and provide technical recommendations.
• Manage virtualization in complex offshore environments including virtual disk configuration failover and high availability (HA) setups. virtualisation
• Support infrastructure for SCADA systems and Industrial PCs (IPCs) within OT environments. Apply infrastructure-as-code principles using tools such as Ansible Terraform or PowerShell/PowerCLI to automate and standardise infrastructure management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure infrastructure solutions meet both IT and OT requirements.
• Contribute to technical documentation and ensure infrastructure knowledge is properly captured and maintained.

Qualifications:

Required

• Minimum 3 years of experience in infrastructure or systems engineering.
• Solid hands-on experience with VMware vSphere including ESXi and vCenter.
• Proven experience in infrastructure migrations and environment upgrades in production settings.
• Strong understanding of Windows and Linux server environments.
• Experience with high availability failover and disaster recovery configurations.
• Good stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong command of English both spoken and written in a multicultural work environment.

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of at least one hypervisor alternative to VMware (Proxmox Hyper-V Nutanix or similar).
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible Terraform or PowerShell/PowerCLI.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals in virtualised environments.
• Familiarity with OT/industrial environments or critical infrastructure (SCADA ICS wind energy utilities).
• Experience working with Industrial PCs (IPCs) or edge computing in constrained environments.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles applicable to OT environments.

Competencies:

To be successful in this role we expect that

• You are comfortable navigating complex technical environments and can balance IT rigor with OT constraints.
• You take ownership of your work and follow through with reliability and accountability.
• You can communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders.
• You are curious proactive and stay current with developments in infrastructure and virtualisation technology.
• You thrive in a collaborative team and are generous with your knowledge.