VMware vRA Consultant - Banking / Financial Services Contract: 6 months Rate: £600/day Inside IR35 via Umb Location: Remote - with occasional visits to London (Bishopsgate) Sector: Banking / Financial Services (candidates must pass full bank vetting) This role does not provide sponsorship now or in the future Overview We are seeking an experienced VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) Consultant to work within an established financial-services environment, supporting ongoing enhancement, remediation, and automation initiatives. The role combines hands-on development, workflow refactoring, and knowledge transfer, helping modernise and stabilise the existing vRA estate. You will partner closely with internal engineering teams through pair programming, unit testing, and workflow documentation, ensuring solutions are secure, repeatable, and fully aligned with operational standards. Key Responsibilities Provide technical remediation, refactoring, and workflow optimisation within the existing VMware vRA environment. Deliver automation and self-service capabilities for DRaaS failover testing, "morning checks," and other Day-2 operational tasks. Collaborate in pair-programming sessions to review and maintain high-quality, efficient code. Develop and execute unit tests to ensure code quality, reliability, and compliance with platform standards. Document workflows, configurations, and operational runbooks in Confluence. Produce and maintain onboarding and training materials, supporting upskilling of existing engineering teams. Support and mentor internal staff through knowledge transfer and best-practice guidance. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing automation, reliability, and operational visibility. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience as a VMware vRA Consultant, DevOps Engineer, or Automation Specialist in enterprise or financial environments. Hands-on expertise with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRO, and infrastructure automation workflows. Strong understanding of unit testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, NUnit, pytest) and version control tools (Git, GitHub, GitLab). Demonstrable experience in workflow documentation and producing technical runbooks and Confluence pages. Strong communication and mentoring skills with the ability to deliver training and onboarding for engineering teams. Familiarity with DRaaS, automation of failover testing, and self-service portal development. Desirable Experience within banking or financial-services environments with exposure to bank vetting and compliance standards. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and agile delivery frameworks. Prior experience in Test-Driven Development (TDD) or continuous-integration environments. Understanding of Zero-Trust and secure-by-design principles for automated infrastructure delivery. Summary This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on VMware vRA Consultant with automation and documentation experience to join a large, regulated financial institution. You'll play a key role in enhancing automation, improving reliability, and enabling self-service within a complex vRA environment-while supporting knowledge transfer and operational excellence across the wider engineering team.
07/11/2025
Full time
VMware vRA Consultant - Banking / Financial Services Contract: 6 months Rate: £600/day Inside IR35 via Umb Location: Remote - with occasional visits to London (Bishopsgate) Sector: Banking / Financial Services (candidates must pass full bank vetting) This role does not provide sponsorship now or in the future Overview We are seeking an experienced VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) Consultant to work within an established financial-services environment, supporting ongoing enhancement, remediation, and automation initiatives. The role combines hands-on development, workflow refactoring, and knowledge transfer, helping modernise and stabilise the existing vRA estate. You will partner closely with internal engineering teams through pair programming, unit testing, and workflow documentation, ensuring solutions are secure, repeatable, and fully aligned with operational standards. Key Responsibilities Provide technical remediation, refactoring, and workflow optimisation within the existing VMware vRA environment. Deliver automation and self-service capabilities for DRaaS failover testing, "morning checks," and other Day-2 operational tasks. Collaborate in pair-programming sessions to review and maintain high-quality, efficient code. Develop and execute unit tests to ensure code quality, reliability, and compliance with platform standards. Document workflows, configurations, and operational runbooks in Confluence. Produce and maintain onboarding and training materials, supporting upskilling of existing engineering teams. Support and mentor internal staff through knowledge transfer and best-practice guidance. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing automation, reliability, and operational visibility. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience as a VMware vRA Consultant, DevOps Engineer, or Automation Specialist in enterprise or financial environments. Hands-on expertise with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRO, and infrastructure automation workflows. Strong understanding of unit testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, NUnit, pytest) and version control tools (Git, GitHub, GitLab). Demonstrable experience in workflow documentation and producing technical runbooks and Confluence pages. Strong communication and mentoring skills with the ability to deliver training and onboarding for engineering teams. Familiarity with DRaaS, automation of failover testing, and self-service portal development. Desirable Experience within banking or financial-services environments with exposure to bank vetting and compliance standards. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and agile delivery frameworks. Prior experience in Test-Driven Development (TDD) or continuous-integration environments. Understanding of Zero-Trust and secure-by-design principles for automated infrastructure delivery. Summary This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on VMware vRA Consultant with automation and documentation experience to join a large, regulated financial institution. You'll play a key role in enhancing automation, improving reliability, and enabling self-service within a complex vRA environment-while supporting knowledge transfer and operational excellence across the wider engineering team.
VMware vRA Consultant - Banking / Financial Services Contract: 6 months Rate: £600/day Inside IR35 via Umb Location: Remote - with occasional visits to London (Bishopsgate) Sector: Banking / Financial Services (candidates must pass full bank vetting) This role does not provide sponsorship now or in the future Overview We are seeking an experienced VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) Consultant to work within an established financial-services environment, supporting ongoing enhancement, remediation, and automation initiatives. The role combines hands-on development, workflow refactoring, and knowledge transfer, helping modernise and stabilise the existing vRA estate. You will partner closely with internal engineering teams through pair programming, unit testing, and workflow documentation, ensuring solutions are secure, repeatable, and fully aligned with operational standards. Key Responsibilities Provide technical remediation, refactoring, and workflow optimisation within the existing VMware vRA environment. Deliver automation and self-service capabilities for DRaaS failover testing, "morning checks," and other Day-2 operational tasks. Collaborate in pair-programming sessions to review and maintain high-quality, efficient code. Develop and execute unit tests to ensure code quality, reliability, and compliance with platform standards. Document workflows, configurations, and operational runbooks in Confluence. Produce and maintain onboarding and training materials, supporting upskilling of existing engineering teams. Support and mentor internal staff through knowledge transfer and best-practice guidance. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing automation, reliability, and operational visibility. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience as a VMware vRA Consultant, DevOps Engineer, or Automation Specialist in enterprise or financial environments. Hands-on expertise with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRO, and infrastructure automation workflows. Strong understanding of unit testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, NUnit, pytest) and version control tools (Git, GitHub, GitLab). Demonstrable experience in workflow documentation and producing technical runbooks and Confluence pages. Strong communication and mentoring skills with the ability to deliver training and onboarding for engineering teams. Familiarity with DRaaS, automation of failover testing, and self-service portal development. Desirable Experience within banking or financial-services environments with exposure to bank vetting and compliance standards. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and agile delivery frameworks. Prior experience in Test-Driven Development (TDD) or continuous-integration environments. Understanding of Zero-Trust and secure-by-design principles for automated infrastructure delivery. Summary This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on VMware vRA Consultant with automation and documentation experience to join a large, regulated financial institution. You'll play a key role in enhancing automation, improving reliability, and enabling self-service within a complex vRA environment-while supporting knowledge transfer and operational excellence across the wider engineering team.
07/11/2025
Full time
VMware vRA Consultant - Banking / Financial Services Contract: 6 months Rate: £600/day Inside IR35 via Umb Location: Remote - with occasional visits to London (Bishopsgate) Sector: Banking / Financial Services (candidates must pass full bank vetting) This role does not provide sponsorship now or in the future Overview We are seeking an experienced VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) Consultant to work within an established financial-services environment, supporting ongoing enhancement, remediation, and automation initiatives. The role combines hands-on development, workflow refactoring, and knowledge transfer, helping modernise and stabilise the existing vRA estate. You will partner closely with internal engineering teams through pair programming, unit testing, and workflow documentation, ensuring solutions are secure, repeatable, and fully aligned with operational standards. Key Responsibilities Provide technical remediation, refactoring, and workflow optimisation within the existing VMware vRA environment. Deliver automation and self-service capabilities for DRaaS failover testing, "morning checks," and other Day-2 operational tasks. Collaborate in pair-programming sessions to review and maintain high-quality, efficient code. Develop and execute unit tests to ensure code quality, reliability, and compliance with platform standards. Document workflows, configurations, and operational runbooks in Confluence. Produce and maintain onboarding and training materials, supporting upskilling of existing engineering teams. Support and mentor internal staff through knowledge transfer and best-practice guidance. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing automation, reliability, and operational visibility. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience as a VMware vRA Consultant, DevOps Engineer, or Automation Specialist in enterprise or financial environments. Hands-on expertise with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRO, and infrastructure automation workflows. Strong understanding of unit testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, NUnit, pytest) and version control tools (Git, GitHub, GitLab). Demonstrable experience in workflow documentation and producing technical runbooks and Confluence pages. Strong communication and mentoring skills with the ability to deliver training and onboarding for engineering teams. Familiarity with DRaaS, automation of failover testing, and self-service portal development. Desirable Experience within banking or financial-services environments with exposure to bank vetting and compliance standards. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and agile delivery frameworks. Prior experience in Test-Driven Development (TDD) or continuous-integration environments. Understanding of Zero-Trust and secure-by-design principles for automated infrastructure delivery. Summary This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on VMware vRA Consultant with automation and documentation experience to join a large, regulated financial institution. You'll play a key role in enhancing automation, improving reliability, and enabling self-service within a complex vRA environment-while supporting knowledge transfer and operational excellence across the wider engineering team.
VMware NSX Senior Consultant 100% Remote Working 3-6 month contract (Inside IR35 via Umbrella) MOD SC Clearance Market Rates Skills and Experience: Providing security and network experience for SDN and physical networking and Firewall services. Ensuring network reliability and availability through well-planned and implemented solutions Delivering network and security infrastructures, Distributed Firewall and LBAAS Developing best practice for maintaining, and supporting networks in NSX-V/NSX-T Implementing and advising on networking and VXLAN technologies Advising on the configuration and monitoring network security layers Knowledge of integration with other software-defined networking technologies; Cisco ACI Improving network manageability and scalability Improving customized workflows using NSX, vRA, and vRO to automate and simplify tasks Experience of team working on complex vSphere deliverables Knowledge of VMware Validated Designs VMware certification desirable The Opportunity: My client are a managed service provider who are currently looking for a VMWare NSX Senior Consultant on an initial 3-6 month contract. You will be defining operations within a VCF-VxRail environment. You will be expected to lead and guide customers in best practice procedures. You be leading and participating in customer workshops which will be essential, so good communication skills both verbal and written are essential part of the role. Applications: To learn more about our client and this great opportunity on offer working as a VMWare NSX Senior Consultant working on a 100% fully remote basis; please call and speak with John Noonan here at ISR Recruitment or please email me a copy of your very latest CV and I'll call you back to discuss the role in more detail.
05/11/2021
Contractor
VMware NSX Senior Consultant 100% Remote Working 3-6 month contract (Inside IR35 via Umbrella) MOD SC Clearance Market Rates Skills and Experience: Providing security and network experience for SDN and physical networking and Firewall services. Ensuring network reliability and availability through well-planned and implemented solutions Delivering network and security infrastructures, Distributed Firewall and LBAAS Developing best practice for maintaining, and supporting networks in NSX-V/NSX-T Implementing and advising on networking and VXLAN technologies Advising on the configuration and monitoring network security layers Knowledge of integration with other software-defined networking technologies; Cisco ACI Improving network manageability and scalability Improving customized workflows using NSX, vRA, and vRO to automate and simplify tasks Experience of team working on complex vSphere deliverables Knowledge of VMware Validated Designs VMware certification desirable The Opportunity: My client are a managed service provider who are currently looking for a VMWare NSX Senior Consultant on an initial 3-6 month contract. You will be defining operations within a VCF-VxRail environment. You will be expected to lead and guide customers in best practice procedures. You be leading and participating in customer workshops which will be essential, so good communication skills both verbal and written are essential part of the role. Applications: To learn more about our client and this great opportunity on offer working as a VMWare NSX Senior Consultant working on a 100% fully remote basis; please call and speak with John Noonan here at ISR Recruitment or please email me a copy of your very latest CV and I'll call you back to discuss the role in more detail.
My client is looking to recruit three excellent DevOps consultants to join their very busy and dynamic team based very near the City of London This role will be part of the team responsible for ground-up development and Implementation a brand-new Secure Infrastructure Management Platform providing Certificate Authority, PKI, Key Management, IDAM, Telco Paas, and other services needed for management of my client's infrastructure The role will involve Setting up and maintaining a PaaS layer for Telco services over VMWare vCloud, Openstack and K8S (vmware Tanzu) The Set up of CI/CD infrastructure to comply with secure SDLC practices, configuration standards, Input Validation, Output Encoding, Cryptographic Practices, Error Handling and Logging, test automation, Data Protection, Communication Security, System Configuration, Database Security, etc. Produce secure OS builds (Redhat, Debian/Ubuntu) The Set up and maintain CA hierarchy, encryption and key management systems Engage actively in vendor RfP process by providing a detailed set of technical capabilities and scoring vendor capabilities Translate high level designs into low level implementation blueprints that deliver business and technical compliance against requirements To be considered for these quite superb roles you will need to have experience in at least some of the following areas MongoDB, MySQL multi master, PostgreSQL, Couchbase), Hadoop, service orchestration (Ansible, Terraform), Observability (Zabbix, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, FluentD), APIGW (OpenResty, NGINX, KrakenD), SSL, DNS, HA-Proxy, Isitio, Consul, Vault, CyberArk, Envoy, OAUTH, JWT, Nexus Sonatype repository, messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS), gRPC Experience in developing vmware VRA blueprints Knowledge of development on top of vmware and K8S platforms Advanced knowledge of PaaS solutions and ability to stand up such as service ground-up If you are looking for your next contract and relish an exciting challenge please send me your CV and I will get back to you ASAP
05/11/2021
Contractor
My client is looking to recruit three excellent DevOps consultants to join their very busy and dynamic team based very near the City of London This role will be part of the team responsible for ground-up development and Implementation a brand-new Secure Infrastructure Management Platform providing Certificate Authority, PKI, Key Management, IDAM, Telco Paas, and other services needed for management of my client's infrastructure The role will involve Setting up and maintaining a PaaS layer for Telco services over VMWare vCloud, Openstack and K8S (vmware Tanzu) The Set up of CI/CD infrastructure to comply with secure SDLC practices, configuration standards, Input Validation, Output Encoding, Cryptographic Practices, Error Handling and Logging, test automation, Data Protection, Communication Security, System Configuration, Database Security, etc. Produce secure OS builds (Redhat, Debian/Ubuntu) The Set up and maintain CA hierarchy, encryption and key management systems Engage actively in vendor RfP process by providing a detailed set of technical capabilities and scoring vendor capabilities Translate high level designs into low level implementation blueprints that deliver business and technical compliance against requirements To be considered for these quite superb roles you will need to have experience in at least some of the following areas MongoDB, MySQL multi master, PostgreSQL, Couchbase), Hadoop, service orchestration (Ansible, Terraform), Observability (Zabbix, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, FluentD), APIGW (OpenResty, NGINX, KrakenD), SSL, DNS, HA-Proxy, Isitio, Consul, Vault, CyberArk, Envoy, OAUTH, JWT, Nexus Sonatype repository, messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS), gRPC Experience in developing vmware VRA blueprints Knowledge of development on top of vmware and K8S platforms Advanced knowledge of PaaS solutions and ability to stand up such as service ground-up If you are looking for your next contract and relish an exciting challenge please send me your CV and I will get back to you ASAP
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