Job Title: VMWare Administrator/Engineer
Location: Framingham, MA 01702 (Onsite)
Duration: ASAP – Fulltime
Salary: $120k + Benefits
Work Authorization: USC and GC
Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- Administer, maintain, monitor, and support enterprise VMware virtualization platforms, including vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, and related ecosystem components.
- Design, install, configure, upgrade, and troubleshoot VMware infrastructure across production, DR, and test environments.
- Lead VMware cluster management activities, including host deployment, lifecycle management, capacity planning, and hardware refresh initiatives.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, storage, networking, HA, DRS, vMotion, and vSAN-related issues.
- Manage VMware patching, upgrades, security hardening, and vulnerability remediation activities while ensuring minimal business disruption.
- Configure and maintain backup, recovery, replication, snapshot, and disaster recovery solutions for virtualized workloads.
- Ensure compliance with organizational security standards, audit requirements, and infrastructure governance policies.
- Monitor infrastructure performance, analyze trends, identify risks, and implement proactive improvements to enhance platform stability and efficiency.
- Perform root cause analysis for critical incidents, develop preventive measures, and drive continuous service improvements.
- Support infrastructure modernization initiatives, including VMware version upgrades, capacity optimization, workload migrations, and cloud integration projects.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and knowledge base articles.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Storage, Backup, Network, Security, Server, and Application teams to resolve complex infrastructure issues.
Roles & Responsibilities
- VMware administration responsible for the design, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and operational support of enterprise VMware environments.
- Monitor platform health, utilization, and performance trends; implement proactive improvements to optimize availability and efficiency.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure, Network, Storage, Backup, Security, and Application teams to deliver stable and resilient services.
- Participate in on-call support, planned maintenance activities, major incident resolution, and disaster recovery testing exercises.