# Senior Platform Engineer - VMWare

About the Role Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with experience in VMWare and Virtualisation. This is an exceptional opportunity to join the global authority in precision timing at a defining moment for UK digital infrastructure. Backed by a government investment of £180 million in the National Timing Centre (NTC) programme, we are developing a world-first resilient time distribution capability that will provide industry with a robust complement to satellite systems (such as GPS) - which are increasingly vulnerable to disruption from solar storms, jamming and spoofing. This will underpin essential services, including Telecommunications, Online banking, Emergency response, Transport networks, and Wider digital and data-driven operations. Together, these services form the backbone of modern society - and your leadership will help ensure they remain secure, reliable and robust even if global navigation satellite systems fail. RESPONSIBILITIES: Design, implement and support VMware platforms and virtual infrastructure services (vCenter, ESXi and vSAN environments) - ensuring they remain secure, resilient, stable and highly availabl

- **Id**: 4043215
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/national-physical-laboratory-senior-platform-engineer-vmware>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Teddington, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T05:16:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:52:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6136
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Testing, Inspection & Certification, Research Institutes, Standards & Industry Bodies

## Company

- **Id**: 1766463
- **Name**: National Physical Laboratory
- **Domain**: npl.co.uk
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/npl-co-uk>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eploy

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 19
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Active Directory** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **PKI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **VMWare** — Optional: no
- **Windows Server** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T22:54:24Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 19
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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