Platform Engineers (VMWare)

As a VMware Platform Engineer, your main responsibility will be to design, deploy, and operate mission-critical virtualization estates on-site at client facilities. Your role will focus on ensuring performance, security, and scalability across private and hybrid clouds. - Engineer and harden vSphere, ESXi, and vSAN clusters to deliver 99.99% uptime. - Automate build, patching, and configuration tasks using PowerCLI, Ansible, and REST APIs. - Monitor capacity, performance, and logs via vRealize Operations and generate improvement plans. - Lead migrations, upgrades, and disaster-recovery drills, documenting runbooks and rollback paths. - Collaborate with network, storage, and security teams to enforce compliance and zero-trust policies. - Provide L3 support, root-cause analysis, and mentoring to junior administrators. Qualifications Required: Must-Have: - 5+ years hands-on experience with VMware vSphere 6.x/7.x in production. - Expertise in ESXi host deployment, clustering, vMotion, DRS, and HA. - Strong scripting skills with PowerCLI or Python for automation. - Solid grasp of Linux server administration and TCP/IP networking. - Experience with backup, replication, and disaster recovery tooling (Veeam, SRM, etc.). Preferred: - Exposure to vRealize Suite, NSX-T, or vCloud Director. - Knowledge of container platforms (Tanzu, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines. - VMware Certified Professional (VCP-DCV) or higher.,