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About the Role We're looking for a hands-on Infrastructure Engineer to strengthen the resilience of a client's on-premises VMware environment ahead of its migration to Azure. You'll validate the existing backup setup, build and test a disaster recovery plan, and help establish an incident response plan, working directly with the client's IT team under a tight timeline. Key Responsibilities • Assess the current VMware vSphere and Dell VxRail environment, including platform health, capacity, and single points of failure. • Review the Barracuda backup configuration, coverage, schedules, retention, and offsite and immutable copies, and remediate gaps. • Plan and carry out restore tests of critical systems in an isolated environment • Map application and infrastructure dependencies to define the correct recovery sequence. • Support business impact workshops to agree RTO and RPO targets with stakeholders. • Write the DR plan and step-by-step recovery runbooks for critical systems. • Create incident response plan, including roles, escalation paths, and playbooks for scenarios such as ransomware and system failure, and help run a tabletop exercise. • Document findings, residual risks, and recommendations to support the Azure migration roadmap. • Transfer knowledge to the client's IT team through clear documentation and walkthroughs. Requirements • Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, vCenter and ESXi, ideally including vSAN or Dell VxRail. • Hands-on experience with Barracuda Backup, including configuration, restore operations, and cloud replication. • Proven experience performing VM, file-level and application restores, and validating recoverability. • Solid Windows Server and Active Directory administration, including DNS and domain controller recovery. • Working knowledge of SQL Server backup and restore, including application-consistent backups and transaction logs. • Experience writing DR plans, runbooks, and technical documentation.