VMware Virtualization Engineer - Hybrid(1 day/week) - Long Term Contract - Harrisburg, PA - B4157B

Our direct client is looking for a VMware Virtualization Engineer for a Hybrid(1 day/week) Long Term Contract in Harrisburg, PA

Note:
- 1 day in the office per week to start and 4 days telework with an increase a possibility
- Full time – 40 hrs per week

J0B DESCRIPTION:
- The Virtualization Engineer is responsible for the architecture, implementation, optimization, and lifecycle management of the enterprise VMware virtualization environment. 
- This role serves as a subject matter expert across the full VMware ecosystem, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and scalability of virtualized compute, storage, and networking platforms. 
- The ideal candidate has extensive hands?on experience with VMware’s core infrastructure products and demonstrates strong leadership, analytical, and problem?solving capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and maintain VMware vSphere clusters, ESXi hosts, and related core virtualization infrastructure.
- Manage and optimize vCenter Server operations, templates, host profiles, and distributed configurations.
- Implement and support VMware vSAN, including storage policy design, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and capacity planning.
- Architect and maintain VMware NSX?T networking and security components, including micro?segmentation.
- Administer VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and integrated components, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
- Manage lifecycle operations using VMware Lifecycle Manager (vLCM), including upgrades, patching, and compliance management.
- Implement automation and orchestration using tools such as VMware Aria (vRealize) Automation, Orchestrator, and PowerCLI.
- Monitor system performance, conduct root?cause analysis, and implement corrective actions to ensure optimal environment stability.
- Maintain security compliance across virtualized environments, including access controls, hardening, and auditing.
- Collaborate with storage, networking, security, and application teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Develop and maintain architectural documentation, standard operating procedures, and disaster recovery runbooks.
- Provide mentorship to junior engineers and participate in on?call support rotations.

Required Qualifications:
- Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
- Ability to manage complex projects and work independently with minimal supervision.

SKILL MATRIX:
- Extensive hands on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter in large scale enterprise environments - Required
- Strong expertise in one or more advanced VMware components such as vSAN, NSX T, VCF, or VMware Aria Suite - Required
- Proficiency with PowerShell / PowerCLI automation - Required
- Deep understanding of enterprise compute, storage, and network architectures - Required
- Experience with capacity planning, performance tuning, and lifecycle management - Required

Question 1: This is a full-time, 40 hours per week position. Do you understand?
Question 2: This is hybrid position that will initially require 1 day on-site in Harrisburg per week. Does your candidate understand and agree to this?

Location: Hybrid(1 day/week), Harrisburg, PA
Type: Long Term Contract 

Please send resume to jobs at etechnovision dot com with B4157B in Subject for immediate consideration.