VMware Engineer

Responsibilities

• Administer vSphere, ESXi hosts, and vCenter, including HA, DRS, vMotion, clusters, resource pools, snapshots, and templates.
• Perform host patching, upgrades, and hardening in line with compliance standards.
• Manage VM lifecycle provisioning, configuration, and troubleshooting across CPU, memory, storage, and network layers.
• Support SAN/NAS storage integrations (VMFS, iSCSI, NFS) and backup/DR platforms (Veeam, SRM, Zerto, Cohesity, Rubrik).
• Automate provisioning and operations using PowerShell/PowerCLI, Ansible, and APIs.
• Monitor environments using vROps or equivalent tools; ensure capacity and performance.
• Participate in incident, problem, change, and request management, including RCA and corrective action implementation.
• Create and maintain system documentation, SOPs, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
• Collaborate with network, storage, cloud, and security teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and major incident response activities.

Mandatory Skills

• 7+ years hands-on VMware vSphere/ESXi administration.
• Expertise in vCenter operations: HA, ELM, PSC, templates, snapshots.
• Knowledge of virtual networking (dvSwitch, VLAN, VXLAN; NSX-T preferred).
• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation / cloud integration.
• SAN/NAS storage management (VMFS, iSCSI, NFS).
• Familiarity with DR, replication, and backup platforms.
• Strong PowerShell/PowerCLI scripting and automation skills.
• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux administration.
• Understanding of ITIL/structured ITSM processes.

Preferred Experience

• NSX-T micro-segmentation and network virtualization.
• VMware vRealize suite (vROps, vRA).
• VMware Horizon VDI support.
• Enterprise datacenter and multi-cloud integration experience (Azure/AWS/GCP/Oracle).

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