VMware Engineer
Location: Houston, Texas
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Mode: 4 days onsite/1 day remote
We are seeking a VMware Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise private cloud, hosted data center, virtualization, and storage environments. This position will serve as a senior technical resource for VMware-centric infrastructure, with responsibility for architecture, service delivery, escalations, standards, and ongoing optimization.
The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on expertise across VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), and enterprise SAN/storage technologies.
Key Responsibilities
•Architect, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise VMware virtualization environments.
•Support vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, vSAN, NSX, and Site Recovery Manager.
•Design and maintain SAN/storage platforms supporting VMware infrastructure.
•Manage infrastructure across private cloud, hosted data center, and customer environments.
•Monitor and improve performance, availability, security, resiliency, and capacity.
•Lead troubleshooting efforts and serve as an escalation point for complex infrastructure issues.
•Support customer and environment onboarding/offboarding, ensuring consistent technical standards.
•Develop and maintain infrastructure standards, operational procedures, documentation, and best practices.
•Optimize monitoring, management, and automation tools to improve service delivery.
•Identify infrastructure risks and implement proactive improvements before they impact customers.
•Partner with internal teams and customers on virtualization, storage, upgrades, migrations, and infrastructure initiatives.
Required Qualifications
•5+ years of experience supporting enterprise VMware infrastructure and virtualization environments.
•Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter Server.
•Experience with technologies such as vSAN, NSX, and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
•Strong understanding of SAN/storage architecture and enterprise storage platforms.
•Experience supporting highly available data center or private cloud environments.
•Strong troubleshooting skills across virtualization, compute, networking, and storage.
•Experience with disaster recovery, high availability, capacity planning, performance optimization, and infrastructure security.
•Ability to take ownership of complex technical escalations and work directly with customers and internal engineering teams.
•Strong documentation and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
•VMware certifications such as VCP, VCAP, or VCDX.
•Experience with enterprise storage platforms from Dell EMC, Pure Storage, NetApp, HPE, or similar technologies.
•Familiarity with infrastructure automation using PowerCLI, PowerShell, Ansible, or Terraform.
•Experience with backup/disaster recovery platforms such as Veeam.
•Exposure to hybrid cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure or AWS.
•Consulting, managed services, or customer-facing infrastructure experience
