Melbourne CBD / South Melbourne | Permanent | Full-time onsite Sydney candidates also welcome to apply

Highlights

Senior hands-on VMware / infrastructure role with major platform modernisation work ahead

Broad exposure across virtualisation, datacentre, storage, DR, cloud and automation

Join a small, experienced platform team where you can genuinely influence technical direction

We’re partnering with a well-established Australian organisation looking to add a

Senior Platform Engineer

to its infrastructure team.

This is a hands‑on senior engineering role for someone with a strong background in

VMware and enterprise infrastructure

who enjoys owning complex environments, solving difficult problems and improving how platforms are designed and operated.

The environment is heavily VMware‑based today, with a number of significant infrastructure, datacentre and modernisation initiatives ahead.

While experience across the full technology stack would be ideal,

we’re not looking for someone who ticks every box . If you have deep VMware experience and a strong background across enterprise infrastructure, we’d still like to hear from you.

The role You’ll work across a mix of project delivery and operational engineering, with approximately

70% of your time focused on projects, upgrades and improvements and 30% on BAU/platform support .

You’ll be involved in areas including:

Supporting and improving enterprise

VMware vSphere / ESXi / vCenter

environments

Managing clusters, HA, DRS, vMotion, lifecycle upgrades and performance

VMware networking including

vSphere Distributed Switches, distributed port groups, VLANs and virtual networking

NSX / NSX‑T where applicable, including segmentation and virtual networking

Datacentre infrastructure,



compute, storage and SAN/NAS environments

Backup, replication and disaster recovery platforms

Infrastructure migrations, upgrades and datacentre consolidation

Cloud and hybrid‑cloud initiatives across AWS and/or Azure

Automation and Infrastructure as Code where appropriate

Capacity planning, monitoring, vulnerability remediation and platform optimisation

Working with security, application, networking and infrastructure teams

Taking ownership of complex platform issues and recommending longer‑term improvements

There will also be participation in an

on‑call rotation , approximately one week every 3–4 months, with an additional on‑call allowance, on top of the offered salary.

What we’re looking for The most important thing is a strong foundation in

enterprise VMware infrastructure .

Ideally, you’ll bring:

Strong hands‑on experience with

VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter

Experience supporting medium‑to‑large enterprise or multi‑datacentre environments

Good understanding of

HA, DRS, vMotion, cluster management, patching and upgrades

Solid VMware networking experience, ideally with

vSphere Distributed Switches

Experience with enterprise

backup, replication and disaster recovery

Exposure to SAN/NAS/storage technologies

Strong troubleshooting skills across compute, virtualisation, networking and storage





Experience taking ownership of infrastructure projects or platform improvements

Ability to communicate clearly with both technical teams and stakeholders

Highly regarded, but not essential Any of the following would be valuable, but we’re not expecting one person to have everything:

NSX / NSX‑T

Micro‑segmentation or other SDN/segmentation technologies

VMware Cloud Foundation

Veeam, Commvault, Zerto, SRM or similar

AWS or Azure migration experience

PowerShell / PowerCLI

Terraform or Ansible

Kubernetes, Tanzu, AKS or EKS

PCI DSS, Essential Eight or other regulated/security‑focused environments

VMware certifications

If you haven’t worked directly with NSX, that won’t automatically rule you out.

Strong experience with VMware Distributed Switches, enterprise networking, segmentation or similar technologies can be equally relevant.

Location The preference is for someone based in

Melbourne , working from the South Melbourne office five days per week.

We are also open to strong candidates based in

Sydney , working on site from the Sydney CBD office.

Why consider it? This is a good opportunity for someone who wants to remain technically hands‑on while taking on more ownership and influence.

You’ll be joining a relatively small platform team, meaning you won’t be restricted to one narrow area of infrastructure. There’s genuine scope to work across VMware, datacentre, DR, storage, cloud and automation while helping shape how the setting evolves over the coming years.

If your background is predominantly VMware/infrastructure and you don’t tick every technology listed above,

we’d still encourage you to apply .

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📌 Senior Platform Engineer – VMware / Infrastructure (Melbourne)
🏢 Morgan Consulting
📍 Melbourne