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Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.\nWe’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do:\nUK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner\n\n3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business\n\n10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK\n\nBest Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW\n\nBest Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW\n\nWe’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!.\n We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Platform Technical Lead to lead the design, delivery and support of enterprise infrastructure and platform services, with a strong focus on VMware and Red Hat OpenShift.\nThe organisation's technology estate is primarily on-premises, therefore strong enterprise infrastructure experience is essential. You will provide technical leadership across infrastructure, virtualisation, platform engineering and automation initiatives, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable and operationally supportable.\nWorking closely with architects, engineers, application teams, security teams and suppliers, you will drive technical governance, solution design, operational excellence and modernisation across the infrastructure estate. Whilst the role is infrastructure-focused, experience designing and supporting cloud-native architectures and containerised platforms is required to support ongoing transformation initiatives.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the design, delivery and support of enterprise infrastructure and platform solutions.\nProvide technical leadership across VMware, OpenShift and core infrastructure technologies.\nDrive technical governance, design assurance and engineering best practices.\nEnsure solutions are secure, resilient, highly available and operationally supportable.\nChampion automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and continuous improvement.\nManage technical risks, dependencies and stakeholder engagement.\nMentor engineering teams and coordinate specialist technical resources.\n Essential\nProven experience in an Infrastructure Platform Technical Lead, Infrastructure Technical Lead or similar senior technical role.\nStrong expertise in VMware enterprise virtualisation platforms.\nHands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platform administration.\nStrong background supporting large-scale on-premises enterprise infrastructure environments.\nExperience with RHEL, enterprise storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions.\nExperience delivering highly available, resilient and secure production platforms.\nKnowledge of automation technologies including Ansible, Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.\nExperience designing and supporting cloud-native architectures, container platforms and modern application hosting models.\nStrong understanding of operational readiness, platform support and service reliability.\nExcellent stakeholder management and communication skills.\nDesirable\nVMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)\nAzure and/or AWS hybrid cloud environments\nAnsible Automation Platform\nArgoCD and GitOps practices\nPrometheus, Grafana and enterprise observability platforms\nPlatform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices\nEnterprise security, compliance and infrastructure governance experience\nIdeal Candidate A hands-on technical leader with deep VMware and OpenShift expertise, capable of leading the evolution of a predominantly on-premises infrastructure estate while leveraging cloud-native architecture principles, automation and modern platform engineering practices.\n Why Version 1?\nAt Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.\nShare in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits\n\nStrong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme\n\nFlexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance\n\nFinancial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme\n\nEmployee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies\n\nEducational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat\n\nReward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.\n\nEnvironment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.\n\nAnd many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.\nVersion 1 is an equal opportunities employer.\nWe are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.\nWe want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter at Version 1. 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