VMware Operations Engineer

About the role

An experienced VMware Operations Engineer is sought to manage, maintain and support a client's VMware virtualized infrastructure and private cloud environment. The position is onsite at the client office, lasts 1 year and is open to candidates of any nationality; CVs must be sent by 5 October.

Key responsibilities

• Operate and administer VMware Cloud Foundation environments, monitoring component health and availability
• Perform routine operations, lifecycle management, patching and upgrades
• Troubleshoot hypervisor, VM performance, connectivity and availability issues
• Administer vSphere environments, including ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, and manage clusters, resource pools, templates, snapshots and distributed switches
• Provision, configure, migrate and manage virtual machines
• Monitor and troubleshoot NSX Manager, transport nodes and Edge nodes, and support logical networking, segments, gateways and routing
• Support Kubernetes cluster provisioning, monitoring and maintenance
• Operate enterprise storage platforms, monitor capacity and performance, and support datastores, VMFS, NFS and storage connectivity
• Run daily health checks, handle incidents, service and change requests within agreed SLAs, and carry out maintenance and planned changes

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in VMware infrastructure administration and operations
• Enterprise IT operations experience
• Strong troubleshooting skills across compute, storage, network, virtualization and OS layers

Required skills

• vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Foundation
• VMware NSX networking and security
• VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS)
• Enterprise backup and recovery solutions
• Linux administration (RHEL, Ubuntu or equivalent)