About Advannor

We enable organisations to create value through bespoke solutions in an open and approachable way. Drawing on expertise across various engineering disciplines, we adapt our solutions to meet each organisation’s 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 virtualisation and software infrastructure layer that underpins the operation of complex industrial environments, including onshore and offshore wind farms. 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 virtualisation in complex offshore environments, including virtual disk configuration, failover, and high availability (HA) setups.

• 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.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Excellent command of English, both spoken and written, in a multicultural working environment.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of at least one VMware alternative hypervisor (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 rigour with OT constraints.

• Take ownership of your work and follow through with reliability and accountability.

• Can communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders.

• Are curious, proactive, and stay current with developments in infrastructure and virtualisation technologies.

• Thrive in a collaborative team and are generous with your knowledge.