Job Title: Senior VMware / Hypervisor Engineer
Location: Fremont, CA (Onsite 5 days/week)
Duration: 6-12 months (ContracttoHire)
About the Role
Seeking a Senior VMware / Hypervisor Engineer to operate and maintain missioncritical private cloud infrastructure in a 24/7 environment. This role focuses on Windows Server administration, VMware engineering, and PowerShell automation, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across global production environments.
You will design, implement, and administer VMware and Windows environments, lead automation initiatives, and provide capacity planning, performance optimization, and incident response. This is an Infrastructure/Site Reliability Engineer role not application SRE or DevOps requiring deep expertise in virtualization and private cloud operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage VMware vSphere (6.x+) and vCenter environments
- Administer Windows Server (2012 R2-2022) and core services (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS)
- Build and maintain virtual machines and virtualization infrastructure
- Develop automation solutions using PowerShell / PowerCLI
- Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and preventive maintenance
- Lead production incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems
- Participate in a 24/7 oncall rotation to ensure uptime and reliability
MustHave Skills
- VMware ESXi (primary skillset)
- VMware vSphere & vCenter
- HyperV and other hypervisors
- Private Cloud (nonAWS) environments
- Strong PowerShell scripting / PowerCLI expertise
- Minimum 8-9 years of experience in VMware/Hypervisor engineering
Preferred Experience
- Deep, handson VMware expertise (nonnegotiable)
- Proven background supporting missioncritical, alwayson environments
- Strong understanding of virtualization at infrastructure/system level
- Ability to own production reliability endtoend
- Mindset focused on automation and operational efficiency