5-7 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting large-scale VMware environments (vSphere 8, NSX-T, vSAN).
Demonstrated experience migrating legacy VMware sites to VMware Cloud Foundation 9 or newer cloud-native stacks.
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
Participate in DR planning, testing, and execution for the virtualization environment; maintain RPO ≤ 5 seconds and RTO ≤ 15 minutes for critical workloads.
Operational Support
Provide Tier-2/3 support for production workloads, including 24 × 7 on-call rotation.
Conduct thorough morning and end-of-day health-checks using scripted tools and AI-generated health scores.
Perform OS and firmware upgrades, mandatory security patches, and storage-system updates through automated pipelines.
Performance Monitoring & Capacity Management
Configure, fine-tune, and maintain monitoring thresholds, alarms, and dashboards in Aria Operations , VRLI, and VRNI.
Use AI-driven anomaly detection to anticipate capacity bottlenecks and latency spikes before they affect production.
Process Improvement & Standardisation
Facilitate environment-wide process-improvement initiatives (change, release, and incident management) to increase efficiency and consistency.
Ensure all deployments adhere to group standards, best practices, and security hardening guides (CIS, VMware Hardened Base Image).