Virtualization Engineer

• Design, deploy, and maintain VMware vSphere environments, including ESXi hosts and vCenter Server.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization across virtual infrastructures.
• Manage virtual networking (vSwitches, distributed switches) and storage configurations (VMFS, NFS, vSAN).
• Implement and maintain high?availability, fault?tolerance, clustering, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Oversee patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management for VMware components and related hardware.
• Troubleshoot complex virtualization issues involving compute, storage, and networking layers.
• Create and enforce VM standards, policies, templates, and provisioning strategies.
• Monitor infrastructure health.
• Ensure security compliance by managing roles, permissions, certificates, and hardening VMware environments.
• Automate administrative tasks when possible.
• Collaborate with systems, network, and security teams on cross?functional infrastructure initiatives.
• Document architecture, configurations, procedures, and change management activities.
• Provide advanced support for production issues and mentor junior team members.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands?on experience administering VMware vSphere environments and Windows Server operating systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a closely related field; equivalent technical certification accepted.
• Strong proficiency with ESXi, vCenter Server, and virtual networking concepts.
• Experience with VMware clustering, HA/DRS, snapshots, templates, and VM lifecycle management.
• Solid understanding of storage technologies such as SAN, NAS, iSCSI, NFS, and/or vSAN.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals as they apply to virtualization: VLANs, trunking, LACP, jumbo frames, and network segmentation.
• Familiarity with Windows and/or Linux server administration in enterprise environments.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across compute, storage, and network layers.
• Experience with Ansible, PowerCLI, Terraform or similar scripting languages for automation.
• Working knowledge of backup and disaster recovery solutions for virtual environments.
• An Understanding of security best practices, RBAC, certificates, and VMware hardening guidelines. Hands?on experience administering enterprise server hardware platforms (Dell, Cisco UCS, HPE, etc.).
• Some data center experience or the willingness to learn.
• Strong documentation, communication, and change-management skills.