Job Title: Senior VMware Engineer
Experience: 8+ Years
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka
Employment Type: Full-Time
Job Role: VMware Virtualization / Infrastructure Engineering
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Senior VMware Engineer with 8+ years of expertise in VMware virtualization, infrastructure management, and enterprise data center operations. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, virtual machine administration, troubleshooting, and infrastructure optimization.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and manage VMware vSphere and ESXi environments.
- Administer and maintain VMware vCenter Server and virtual machines.
- Perform virtual machine provisioning, migration, cloning, snapshots, and resource allocation.
- Manage VMware clusters, HA (High Availability), DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler), and vMotion.
- Perform ESXi host upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management.
- Troubleshoot virtualization, performance, connectivity, and storage-related issues.
- Manage VMware networking, including vSwitches, distributed switches, VLANs, and VMkernel networking.
- Work with SAN/NAS storage and troubleshoot datastore-related issues.
- Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery procedures for virtualized environments.
- Monitor infrastructure performance, capacity, availability, and resource utilization.
- Support incident, problem, and change management processes.
- Collaborate with network, storage, security, and server teams to ensure infrastructure stability.
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and infrastructure configuration records.
Required Technical Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere and ESXi.
- Expertise in VMware vCenter Server administration.
- Experience with vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, and DRS.
- Knowledge of VMware networking, vSwitches, distributed switches, VLANs, and VMkernel.
- Experience with virtual machine lifecycle management and performance tuning.
- Understanding of SAN/NAS storage, datastores, and multipathing.
- Experience with ESXi patching, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of VMware backup and disaster recovery solutions.
- Experience with Windows and Linux server environments.
- Good understanding of data center infrastructure and virtualization concepts.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with VMware NSX, VMware Aria Operations, or VMware Site Recovery Manager.
- Knowledge of PowerCLI and automation scripting.
- Experience with enterprise infrastructure monitoring tools.
- VMware certification such as VCP-DCV.
- Exposure to cloud platforms and hybrid infrastructure environments.
Experience and Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure and virtualization.
- Strong hands-on experience in VMware administration and enterprise environments.
- Experience supporting business-critical production infrastructure.
- Ability to handle critical incidents and perform root cause analysis.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred.
Work Location
Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Pay: ₹535,000.00 - ₹3,000,000.00 per year
Application Question(s):
- Mention your last working date
- Mentally your preferred location
Experience:
- Data visualization: 8 years (Preferred)
- VMWare: 8 years (Preferred)
- WAN: 1 year (Preferred)
- LAN: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bangalore City, Bengaluru, Karnataka
