VMware Virtualization Platform Engineer

About the role

The Virtualization Platform Engineer implements, administers, optimizes and manages the lifecycle of enterprise virtualization platforms, mainly VMware ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, VMware Aria Suite, SRM and RP4VM. The engineer keeps virtualization services highly available, scalable, secure and performant, working with infrastructure, network, storage, security, application and cloud teams to deliver reliable virtualization and hybrid cloud services.

Key responsibilities

• Implement, administer and maintain VMware ESXi, vCenter and vSAN environments, including cluster configuration, HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, networking and storage integration.
• Manage and optimize VMware Aria / vRealize Suite (Aria Automation, Aria Operations, Log Insight, Orchestrator).
• Develop automation with PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python, REST APIs and VMware Orchestrator; configure monitoring, dashboards, alerts, reports and capacity models.
• Perform capacity planning for CPU, memory, storage, network and cluster resources.
• Troubleshoot virtualization, storage, networking and performance issues.
• Manage disaster recovery with VMware SRM and Dell RecoverPoint for VMs (RP4VM), including DR testing and failover/failback validation.
• Handle upgrades, migrations, infrastructure expansion, hardware refreshes and platform lifecycle management.
• Maintain technical standards, procedures, documentation and runbooks, and support ITIL Incident, Problem, Change, Capacity and Availability Management.
• Mentor other engineers and evaluate new virtualization, automation, private cloud and hybrid cloud technologies.

Required profile

• 3 to 5+ years of hands-on enterprise virtualization and infrastructure experience.
• Experience delivering complex virtualization infrastructure projects and migrations.
• Good communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Required skills

• Extensive experience with VMware ESXi, vCenter and vSAN; strong knowledge of VMware Aria / vRealize Suite.
• Strong VMware troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.
• Infrastructure capacity planning and resource optimization.
• Automation and scripting with PowerShell/PowerCLI, Python or REST APIs.
• Understanding of enterprise networking, storage, backup, replication and disaster recovery.
• Knowledge of Azure, Azure Stack, Hyper-V, Windows Server, Citrix, cloud and hybrid cloud architectures is an advantage.