Immediate need for a talented Senior IT VMware Systems Engineer. This is a Long-Term Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID:26-34415
Pay Range: $60 - $65/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and support large-scale VMware virtualization environments (400–500 servers).
- Work on VMware vSphere 8 and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 9).
- Perform real-time capacity monitoring and infrastructure health checks.
- Review and validate capacity enhancement requests (RITMs).
- Drive hardware lifecycle management and replacement of end-of-life servers.
- Support VMware platform migration, upgrades, patching, and production deployments.
- Monitor and optimize infrastructure performance, availability, and capacity.
- Follow banking production change management and governance processes.
- Collaborate with global infrastructure, storage, networking, and application teams.
Key Requirements and Technology Experience:
- Must-Have Skills: Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere 8.
- VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 9) experience.
- Enterprise VMware infrastructure administration and support.
- Large-scale server infrastructure management.
- Capacity planning, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Banking / Financial Services domain experience.
- Understanding of production change management, security, and regulatory compliance.
- Experience with VMware Aria Operations, NSX-T, and vSAN.
- Good to Have: PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
- Aria Operations, VRLI, and VRNI.
- VMware migration and infrastructure automation.
- ITIL / VMware certifications.
- Important Requirements:
- In-person interview is mandatory.
- Local candidates preferred.
- Must be comfortable working onsite 3 days per week in Jersey City, NJ.
- We are looking for an experienced VMware Systems Engineer / Virtualization SME with strong hands-on experience in VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.
- Candidates must have strong Banking / Financial Services domain experience with an understanding of production change management, security, regulatory, and governance requirements.
Our client is a leading IT Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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