Senior Software Development Engineer-Infrastructure Automation

Position Summary

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer with 5-8 years of experience specializing in infrastructure deployment automation and VMware workload migration. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), VMware vSphere, vMotion, HCX, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AI POD managed services. You will be responsible for automating infrastructure provisioning, migrating workloads from VMware environments to cloud and hybrid infrastructures, and optimizing AI/ML deployments.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Automate infrastructure deployment using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm for VMware and cloud environments.
• Develop and implement VMware workload migration strategies, including vMotion, HCX, SRM (Site Recovery Manager), and lift-and-shift migrations.
• Migrate VMware-based workloads to public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) or hybrid cloud environments.
• Optimize and manage AI POD workloads on VMware and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Leverage VMware HCX for live and bulk workload migrations, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance.
• Automate virtual machine provisioning and lifecycle management using VMware vSphere APIs, PowerCLI, or vRealize Automation.
• Integrate VMware workloads with Kubernetes for containerized AI/ML workflows.
• Ensure workload high availability and disaster recovery post-migration using VMware SRM, vSAN, and backup strategies.
• Monitor and troubleshoot migration performance issues using vRealize Operations, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines to automate workload migration, deployment, and validation.
• Ensure security and compliance for workloads before, during, and after migration.
• Work closely with cloud architects to design hybrid cloud solutions supporting AI/ML workloads.

Basic Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in infrastructure automation, VMware workload migration, and cloud integration.
• Expertise in VMware vSphere, ESXi, vMotion, HCX, SRM, vSAN, NSX-T.
• Hands-on experience with workload migration tools such as VMware HCX, CloudEndure, AWS Application Migration Service, Azure Migrate.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, vRealize Automation).
• Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) and containerized AI/ML workloads.
• Experience in public cloud migration (AWS, Azure, GCP) for VMware-based workloads.
• Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, Tekton).
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity planning in VMware environments.
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting experience for VMware-based workloads.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NVIDIA GPU orchestration (KubeFlow, Triton, RAPIDS, etc.).
• Familiarity with Packer for automated VM image creation.
• Familiarity with Edge AI deployments, federated learning, and AI inferencing at scale.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure automation projects.