VMWare Engineer

VMWare Engineer

Contract/ Fulltime

Location – Irvine, California (Onsite)

7 to 10 years experience minimum required

Role Summary

The VMware Engineer will design, implement, maintain, and optimize enterprise virtualization platforms supporting datacenter, cloud, and hybrid operations. This role is responsible for delivering secure, resilient, high performance virtualized environments while partnering with infrastructure, security, and application teams to ensure continuous availability and operational excellence.

Mandatory Skills:  

•         7+ years Strong hands-on VMware vSphere and ESXi administration experience.

•          vCenter operations expertise including HA, ELM, PSC, templates, and snapshots.

•          Knowledge of virtualization networking concepts (dvSwitch, VLAN, VXLAN, NSX-T preferred) and VMWare cloud foundation/integration

•          Experience managing SAN/NAS storage integrations (VMFS, iSCSI, NFS).

•          Familiarity with DR, replication, and backup platforms

•          PowerShell/PowerCLI scripting and automation proficiency.

•          Working knowledge of Windows and Linux administration.

•          Experience with ITIL or other structured ITSM processes.

•          Ability to perform RCA, document findings, and implement corrective actions.

Key Responsibilities

•          Administer VMware vSphere, ESXi hosts, and vCenter environments.

•          Configure and support HA, DRS, vMotion, resource pools, and clusters.

•          Manage VM lifecycle provisioning, snapshots, templates, and configurations.

•          Perform host patching, upgrades, and hardening per compliance standards.

•          Support integration with SAN/NAS storage technologies (FC/iSCSI/NFS).

•          Administer backup/DR solutions such as SRM, Veeam, Zerto, Cohesity, or Rubrik.

•          Troubleshoot VM performance issues across CPU, memory, storage, and network layers.

•          Automate provisioning and operations using Ansible and/or PowerCLI, PowerShell, and APIs.

•          Monitor environments using vROps or equivalent tools for capacity and performance.

•          Support incident, problem, change, and request management activities (L2/L3 escalation).

•          Create and update system documentation, SOPs, runbooks, and diagrams.

•          Collaborate with network, storage, cloud, and security teams on solution delivery.

•          Participate in on-call rotation and major incident response activities.

Preferred Experience

•          NSX-T micro-segmentation and network virtualization.

•          vRealize suite (vROps, vRA) experience.

•          VMware Horizon VDI support.

•          VMWare cloud foundation (VCF+)/Cloud integration (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform/Oracle).

•          Enterprise datacenter support experience.