Job Summary
Senior VMware Infrastructure Engineer / SME (L3) with 9+ years of experience in enterprise VMware virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, and cloud management platforms. Responsible for advanced administration, troubleshooting, performance optimization, capacity management, upgrades, major incident resolution, RCA, automation, and operational governance of vSphere, vCenter, vSAN Ready Nodes, VMware Aria, and vRealize environments.
Key Responsibilities
Lead administration and operational support of VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and vSAN Ready Node environments. Manage and troubleshoot VMware clusters, hosts, virtual machines, datastores, and HCI infrastructure. Administer and optimize vSAN clusters, including capacity, health, performance, storage policies, and availability. Manage VMware Aria / vRealize platforms for infrastructure monitoring, capacity, performance, automation, and operational visibility. Troubleshoot complex ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, VM, datastore, networking, and performance issues. Lead critical VMware infrastructure incidents and perform detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Plan and execute ESXi/vCenter upgrades, patching, firmware coordination, and lifecycle-management activities. Manage and optimize HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, clusters, resource pools, and datastore configurations. Perform capacity planning, trend analysis, resource optimization, and infrastructure health assessments. Support VMware infrastructure migrations, consolidation, technology refresh, and modernization initiatives. Support backup/recovery, High Availability, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery requirements. Automate VMware operational activities using PowerCLI, PowerShell, Ansible, APIs, or equivalent tools. Support security hardening, vulnerability remediation, certificates, access management, and compliance activities. Coordinate with Server, Storage, Backup, Network, Cybersecurity, Cloud, and OEM/vendor teams. Provide L3 technical leadership and escalation support to L1/L2 infrastructure teams. Maintain architecture documentation, configuration standards, SOPs, runbooks, and knowledge articles.
Skill Requirements
: Advanced hands-on expertise in VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter Server. Strong experience with VMware vSAN and vSAN Ready Nodes. Strong knowledge of VMware Aria / vRealize Suite, including operational monitoring, performance, capacity, and automation. Advanced knowledge of HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, clustering, resource management, and datastore management. Strong experience with virtualization performance tuning, monitoring, and capacity planning. Strong understanding of VMware networking, vSwitch, Distributed Switch, VLAN, NIC Teaming, and virtual networking. Experience with ESXi/vCenter patching, upgrades, lifecycle management, and complex troubleshooting. Strong understanding of SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and storage integration. Experience with VMware backup, recovery, replication, and Disaster Recovery solutions. Strong Windows/Linux infrastructure knowledge in virtualized environments. Experience with PowerCLI, PowerShell, Ansible, REST APIs, or equivalent automation technologies. Knowledge of security hardening and vulnerability-remediation practices for VMware infrastructure. Strong experience with Major Incident Management, RCA, Problem Management, and Change Management. Strong technical leadership, documentation, stakeholder-management, and vendor-coordination skills. VMware VCP/VCAP or equivalent advanced VMware knowledge/certification preferred.